Jurjen de Haan - Lithograph, Abstract work from 1986 - Sold

Jurjen de Haan (The Hague, 1936 – 2018) Initially, Jurjen de Haan focused on photorealism, but gradually turned his attention to large, multicolored abstract paintings that evoke an imaginative and slightly carefree world. Until 1988-1989, busy, dynamic lines filled the color planes, giving the surface of the painting a dancing or undulating suggestion. In his most recent work, the background is often an almost uniform color plane (often gray), or a pair of color planes juxtaposed. Against this background, closed forms stand out, often composed of intense colors, which nevertheless find their balance within the overall composition. The forms are often surrounded by a contour line, but sometimes the colors are so strong that they do not require this boundary. Occasionally, a color plane is enriched with patterns in contrasting colors. Jurjen de Haan enjoys painting on large canvases. A size of 200 x 200 cm is not uncommon. But he also paints narrow vertical, horizontal, or triangular canvases. Everything is painted wet-on-wet, although it often seems as if the delicate nuances emerged after a long process of drying and overpainting, layer upon layer.