Portrait of Salomon Beffie
Currently on view
Jan Sluijters (1881 - 1957), c. 1912
oil on canvas, 107.5 cm x 85.5 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands), c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2023
Currently on view
Jan Sluijters (1881 - 1957), c. 1912
oil on canvas, 107.5 cm x 85.5 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands), c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2023
It takes guts to paint a portrait of your client with green hair. ‘What a nerve!’, wrote one art critic in 1913. But Jan Sluijters knew his subject. Salomon Beffie (1874-1958) was delighted with the painting. He even ordered a second version of it for his family.
Sluijters experimented intensively with the expressive effect of bright colours. Ever since encountering the work of the French avant-garde in Paris a few years earlier, he had been producing extravagant paintings featuring an explosive use of colour. Van Gogh was also a major inspiration. Sluijters thought his work was ‘universally accessible and comprehensible’.
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