Joop Van Leeuwen (1962) - Bollenvelden

This concerns a colorful painting by the well-known Dutch artist Joop van Leeuwen (1962)
Beautiful field of blooms that brightens every living room.
The dimensions of the canvas without a frame measured are 60 cm x 80 cm and it is signed on the bottom right.
Joop van Leeuwen

Johannes Jacobus Hendrikus (Joop) van Leeuwen was born in 1962 in The Hague. Already in early childhood his drawings and “oil paintings” stood out in a positive sense. During his school years he visited almost daily the well-known Hague museums (the Mauritshuis and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag). He painted and drew there, copying famous masters.

Joop studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (1981-1984). In his academy years Van Leeuwen painted and exhibited independently. Well-known art dealers in The Hague regularly took his works even in these years. It is also in this period that Van Leeuwen created his first impressionist beach scenes.

His Beach Scenes, Winter Scenes, and Cityscapes were very popular. Reputable galleries sold his works. He acted as an adviser for well-known collectors and his works were auctioned by Christies and Sotheby’s.

Then comes the turning point. Van Leeuwen finds his works back on the market. No longer with his own distinctive, somewhat handwritten signature J J H van Leeuwen, but with signatures of other painters with a comparable style and body of work. There are also outright forgeries. Disillusioned, Van Leeuwen withdraws completely from the art world around 1993.

Shortly after the turn of the century Van Leeuwen met Rotterdam businessman Bennie Gans. Gans had already been an admirer and collector of Van Leeuwen’s works. Gans can persuade Joop to take up the brushes again and with success.
In 2005 there was a retrospective (primarily beach scenes) at Galerie Hoopman in Amsterdam and a few years later he charted new paths.

He received a commission from the Rockart museum, based in Hoek van Holland, to paint portraits of a number of well-known Dutch artists. This museum presents the history of Dutch pop music from around 1950 to the present.
For this Van Leeuwen created characteristic portraits of about a dozen famous pop stars. These include Anouk, Andy Tielman, Herman Brood, Boudewijn de Groot, and André Hazes. They are oil paintings on canvases of 100x80 cm.

Beach scenes by Joop van Leeuwen remain very much in demand. At the better auctions in our country we regularly see beach scenes—and also other works—of him offered.