Wednesday 20 December 2023

Isaac Israëls - part 5

1909 Self portrait with cigarette
oil on canvas 40.5 x 33 cm

Isaac Israëls was born in Amsterdam in 1865, the son of the painter Jozef Israëls. Early in his life, his family moved to The Hague. During his life as an artist Isaac exchanged ‘the grey' pallet of the Haagse school (the Hague school) for a more colourful and lively pallet.

Israels was associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.

Between 1880 and 1882 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he met George Hendrik Breitner who was to become a lifelong friend.

He returned to Amsterdam where he was asked to join the Kring der Tachtigers (the group of Eighty). Cityscapes featuring Amsterdam and Parisian street life, fashionable ladies, the interiors of cafés and sewing workshops are amongst his most popular scenes. He is considered to be one of the most important Dutch impressionists.

Isaac Israëls died in 1934 in The Hague.


For a more in-depth biography see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 4 also.


This is part 5 of an 11-part series on the works of Isaac Israëls:


1917-20 Girl reading
oil on canvas 80.5 x 53 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1917-20 Sleeping woman
oil on canvas 50.5 x 60.5 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

c1917-21 Portrait of Lola Cornero 
watercolour on paper 46 x 28.5 cm

c1917 A view of the Scheveningen Boulevard with the Wandelhoofd Wilhelmina in the distance
oil on canvas 45.5 x 60.5 cm

c1917 Nanny in the zoo, The Hague
oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm

c1917 Self-Portrait
oil on canvas 60 x 45 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1917 Self-portrait
oil on canvas 86.5 x 50.5 cm

c1917 Woman in Black Evening Dress
oil on canvas 92 x 71 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1918 Artist in the studio
oil on canvas 58.8 x 38.5 cm

1918 The Munttoren in Amsterdam, thaw weather
oil on canvas 100.5 x 74 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1918 The Munttoren, Amsterdam
oil on canvas 100 x 73 cm
Private Collection

c1918 My Sophie, blushing
 oil on canvas on board 60.1 x 45.3 cm

c1918
A view of the Muntplein, Amsterdam
oil on canvas 73.0 x 101.5 cm

1919 Carnations
oil on canvas (size not given)

1919 Man with three girls on a bench in the Oosterpark, Amsterdam
watercolour on paper 44.8 x 32 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1919 Marius Bauer in the studio of Isaac Israel
oil on canvas 70 x 58.5 cm

1919 Portrait of Dr. Coenraad Kerbert
oil on canvas 170 x 108 cm
Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam

c1919 Nurse
oil on canvas 60.5 x 50.8 cm

c1919 Portrait of an unknown woman with a hat
pencil on paper (size not given)
 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1920 Portrait of Dr. Aletta Jacobs
oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm
Groninger Museum, Groningen

1920 Portrait of Fie Carelsen
oil on canvas 56 x 42 cm
Private Collection

1920 Portrait of Fie Carelsen
watercolour on paper 50.8 x 35.4 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1920 Portrait of Fie Carelsen
watercolour on paper 50.8 x 35.4 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1920 Portrait of Fie Carelsen
watercolour on paper 50.8 x 35.4 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1920 Portrait of Fie Carelsen
watercolour on paper 50.8 x 35.4 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1920 Two girls in the street in England
watercolour on paper 54.4 x 37.2 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1920-23 A Flower Girl on the beach
oil on canvas 76.5 x 56.5 cm
Private Collection

c1920-28 Horse rider
oil on canvas 80 x 75 cm

1920-34 Show-girl (La Cocotte) at Scala Theatre, The Hague
oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm
Haags Historisch Museum


c1920 Portrait of Nelly Bodenheim
oil on panel 35.5 x 26.5 cm

c1920 Portrait of Dr. Aletta Jacobs
watercolour and gouache on paper 50.8 x 35.4 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1920 Japanese lady in red kimono
oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

c1920 Girl Reading on a Divan
oil on canvas 52 x 72 cm

c1920 Cockney girls
oil on canvas 76 x 51 cm

c1920 A busy day, Scheveningen beach
watercolour on paper 33.7 x 50.5 cm

c1920s Water carrier
oil on canvas 55 x 38 cm

1920s Figures on the beach of Viareggio, Italy
oil on canvas 32.5 x 44.5 cm

1920s Figures on the beach of Viareggio, Italy
oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm

c1920s Spring flowers in a wicker basket
oil on canvas 101 x 91 cm

1921 Portrait of a Lady
oil on canvas 40 x 25 cm

1921-22 A Javanese Dancer
watercolour on paper 51 x 41 cm

1921-22 Gamelan players, a study
pencil on paper 23 x 30.5 cm

1921-22 Still life with Topeng
watercolour on paper 34 x 49.5 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

c1921-22 Gamelan Orchestra, Indonesia
watercolour
Private Collection

c1921 Passengers Resting on Deck
watercolour on paper 25.3 x 35.6 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands


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