Jaap Gardenier (1930-2009) - Carriere Lacoste





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Jaap Gardenier (1930-2009), a Dutch realist artist, created Carriere Lacoste through a pencil drawing in an original edition dating from 1970–1980; the work measures 50 cm by 65 cm, is hand signed, in good condition, and originated from the Netherlands, depicting a landscape.
Description from the seller
Author of a powerful, intense and bewitching work, the Dutch painter, drawer, etcher, lithographer Jaap Gardenier was born in Delft in 1930. He never attended any Art School or Art academy.
He will study Art History at the University of Amsterdam.
Towards the end of his studies, during a University class on artistic materials he discovers his passion for drawing and painting. He gets more and more absorbed by this new world opening to him. He will then bravely give up the idea of completing his Ph.D to entirely devote himself to painting.
In 1961 he travels to Lacoste in the South of France where he meets and strikes up a friendship with Sven Blomberg, a Swedish painter who belonged to the Victor Pasmore group. That same year, Gardenier has his first exhibition in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.
In 1962 Jaap Gardenier definitely leaves Holland to settle in France in an old deserted farmhouse in the Alpes de Haute Provence.
In his work, the emotion he feels in observing the unlimited richness of the world that surrounds us, forms the basis of his pictorial explorations.
Seller's Story
Author of a powerful, intense and bewitching work, the Dutch painter, drawer, etcher, lithographer Jaap Gardenier was born in Delft in 1930. He never attended any Art School or Art academy.
He will study Art History at the University of Amsterdam.
Towards the end of his studies, during a University class on artistic materials he discovers his passion for drawing and painting. He gets more and more absorbed by this new world opening to him. He will then bravely give up the idea of completing his Ph.D to entirely devote himself to painting.
In 1961 he travels to Lacoste in the South of France where he meets and strikes up a friendship with Sven Blomberg, a Swedish painter who belonged to the Victor Pasmore group. That same year, Gardenier has his first exhibition in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.
In 1962 Jaap Gardenier definitely leaves Holland to settle in France in an old deserted farmhouse in the Alpes de Haute Provence.
In his work, the emotion he feels in observing the unlimited richness of the world that surrounds us, forms the basis of his pictorial explorations.

