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Obtained from the artist's estate, this gouache with cheerful colours by Jurjen de Haan from 2006.
With other representatives of new realism he has in common that he studied, between 1955 and 1960, at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Between 1963 and 1991 he was a lecturer at the Arnhem School of the Arts. De Haan initially focused on photorealism and gradually began to devote himself more to large multicoloured abstract paintings that evoke an imaginative and slightly carefree world.
The premature death of his partner Maarten van Dreven (Sneek, 1941 - The Hague, 2001) has not affected the Cobra-like colour palette of his paintings, but the dreamy and reckless aspects have since become a thing of the past.