Isaac Israels

Sale: Christie's, Amsterdam, 26 October 1999, lot 237

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

A.Z., 'Isaac Israels in de Kunstzaal Meylink' in Elsevier Geillustreerd Maandschrift 22, no. 44 (1912), p. 192, illustrated (as de ontmoeting) 

Hans te Nijenhuis and Ietse Meij, Isaac Israels. Mannequins en Mode, 2002, Wijk en Aalburg, pp. 40-41, illustrated

Rotterdam, Kunstzaal Meylink, February 1912

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Fragmented mirror, exhibition of Jewish Artists, Berlin, 1907, 2009

'The Parisian life so pleased him that he decided to stay there. In fact he was to stay there for the next ten years becoming thoroughly Francophile. Yet although he read widely in French and lived in Montmartre, the centre of artistic life in Paris, he had hardly any contact with other artists working in the city and was hardly affected by any of the artistic developments there. His subjects were the same as in Amsterdam: the Bois de Boulogne now took the place of the Oosterpark; ouvreuses, midinettes and trottins now peopled his canvases; the Champs Elysées, Place Vendôme, the Tuileries and Longchamp races are all featured... His colours of this period, however, are more 'French', lighter, applied in broad flat strokes, and his pastels are softer. Only the essentials are reproduced and the emphasis is on the interplay of light, colour, line and the movement of the body.'

Quoted in Isaac Israels, Van Voorst van Beest Gallery, exh. cat., The Hague, 1989