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Painting by Leo Hortensius, The size is 120 x 95 cm with gold frame
Paintings with color techniques using spray cans
This technique resulted in a beautiful series of paintings, which in the mid-1980s were sold, among others, at Berger's collection in Roosendaal and les Arcades in Scheveningen: the price was then around 2000 guilders.
Leo Hortensius is an exceptionally gifted painter from The Hague with an exceptional career that earned him international fame, that is the “Magister Anonymus” aka Leo Hortensius. He painted photographically accurate work in the 1970s and 1980s and sold and exhibited widely at home and abroad. In 1985 something happened that took his career in a radical and extraordinary turn. One of his admirers had bought paintings by 17th-century masters at auction and loaned them to a museum. Because he missed the paintings, he asked Hortensius to make replicas of the originals.