Jan Verkade, a young Dutch painter inspired…
1892 CE
His painting Cour de ferme, Le Pouldu ("Farmyard at Le Pouldu," c. 1892, private collection) is an excellent example of the Pont-Aven style.
Verkade reduces the forms of the buildings and landscape to simple shapes; the colors are personal and expressive, applied in flat planes to create a complex surface pattern.
The painting's initial owner is Marie Henry, the innkeeper at Le Pouldu who is the subject of Maternity (1889; private collection) a painting by forty-year-old Meier Isaac de Haan, another member of the Pont-Aven school, born in Amsterdam to an Orthodox Ashkenazi family. (Gauguin, who had stayed in the inn with Meier the previous summer, thought so highly of his friend's picture that he made and decorated a frame for it.)
Verkade joins the Nabis, as do the Swiss-born Félix Vallotton and two French sculptors, Georges Lacombe and Aristide Maillol.
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Jan Verkade: La ferme au Pouldu (circa 1892) pastel; 29 x 35 cm. (11.4 x 13.8 in.)
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