Arie Zwart - Summer dunes with pond - Sold

Arie Zwart (1903-1981)
Summer dunes with pond
oil paint on panel
24 x 33 cm (internal dimensions)
signed bottom left

Arie Zwart received his education at the Hague Academy of Fine Arts. At the age of thirty, he decided to travel through the Netherlands with his family in a caravan. Not long after, he bought a houseboat – 'De Trekschuit' – and they sailed through the Netherlands with Voorburg and later Woerden as their home port. In the early 1950s, he also made longer journeys to, among other places, France, Spain (the fishing village of Peñiscola and the island of Ibiza), Portugal, and Tunisia. It was not until 1974 that he sold the houseboat, and the couple moved to the Rosa Spierhuis in Laren, where he passed away in 1981.

Zwart's early work is predominantly painted in the tradition of the Hague School, but his later work from the 1930s and 1940s is looser and lighter. During this period, he painted many lake views and polder landscapes that sold well; Zwart was an artist during that time who painted extensively for commercial purposes. While traveling to the countries surrounding the Mediterranean, the painter was struck by the Southern light. Those impressions from that period are clearly reflected in the work he produced then.