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WILLEM DOLPHYN | Still Life, Shelf with Vase and Book
  • WILLEM DOLPHYN | Still Life, Shelf with Vase and Book

    £8,950.00Price

    Oil on Panel

     

    40 x 50 cms /15 ¾ x 19 ¾ inches
    Signed and dated W Dolphyn '83 (lower left)

     

    The limited colour palette chosen by realist painter, Willem Dolphyn in Still Life, Shelf with Vase and Book allows the artist to display great skill. Dolphyn plays with texture from the gradiated grey backdrop to the pock marked wooden worktops and highly polished reflections of the glassware and ceramics.

    Belgian artist, Willem Dolphyn often used items from his own collections to curate a narrative in his paintings. This piece embraces themes of classicism and antiquitary, contrasing carefully preserved artifacts with threadbare reading materials and hastily hand written notes set down in pots.

    • Instantly recognisable as the master of still life painting in Antwerp, Willem Dolphyn has created some of the finest canvases ever produced in this historic city over the last eighty years.

      Demonstrating the sheer technical virtuosity in the handling of light, texture and atmosphere, his works contain a rich purity which sets them apart from others.

      Willem gained a great deal of experience and professional knowledge from his father Victor, who was a teacher at the Academy and the founder of the new Classic School of Traditional painting.

      This developed Willem’s keen understanding of composition, detail and colour.

      Since his first solo show in 1968, Willem’s paintings have been exhibited widely in Europe and Asia.

      Among his many achievements, the highlight was his appointment as Ambassador of Arts for the City of Antwerp.

      Read more about Willem Dolphyn. 

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