Co Westerik - Framed watercolor: At the table - 2004

Framed watercolor by Co Westerik from 2004. Title: At the table. Dimensions incl. frame: H51 x w41cm. Dimensions: H10.5 x W14.5cm. The work is signed and dated by the artist at the bottom right. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate can be emailed upon request.

The work can also be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The collection period, if paid in advance, is very long. In other words, the buyer can pick up the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. We can also ship the work via Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Frames: Damage to frames is not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be stated. Reflection may be visible in photos of framed works.

Jacobus (Co) Westerik (The Hague, March 2, 1924 – Rotterdam, September 10, 2018) was a Dutch painter. He received his training at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
After graduating in 1947, Westerik made the painting The Fish Woman, for which he won the Jacob Maris Prize for painting in 1951. In 1953 and 1954 he was awarded the Royal Subsidy for Painting. This unleashed a stream of positive and, above all, negative publicity in discussions in the newspapers. Despite the latter, his work was purchased by museums, including the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, and private collectors.
Westerik made paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs and etchings. He worked daily, half the year in his studio in Rotterdam and the summer months in the south of France.
From 1958 to 1971, Westerik taught figure drawing at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Westerik was part of the Verve group with the Hague artists Herman Berserik, Jan van Heel, Willem Hussem and Jaap Nanninga. He was a classmate of Cornelis Zitman, Henk Peeters and Toon Wegner, with whom he also traveled.
Westerik had three daughters from his marriage to painter Hens de Jong and two sons from his second marriage to gallery owner Fenna de Vries. His eldest daughter died in 1992.
Westerik himself died at the age of over 94 in 2018, after having been ill for a long time.