Jan Sluijters (1881-1957)

The sitter in the present lot is Trudi Körner, a friend of Sluijters' second wife Greet van Cooten. Sluijters painted Trudi circa 1911, when he was very productive and experimented with the diverse avant-garde movements that were flourishing at the time in Europe. Especially Cubism and Expressionism had a great influence on him. Sluijters never belonged to one movement, he considered himself first and foremost a painter of reality. For him the most important was fulfillment in painting and trying to work out challenges in form and colour.

To be included in the catalogue raisonné on the artist's work, currently being prepared by the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in the Hague.