Lot n° 212
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 2 800EUR
JAN MEYER (1927-1995)
Paysage nordique II, 1952
Oil on canvas, signed above left, resigned, dated and drawn on the back.
73 x 50 cm
Provenance; Galerie Protée, Paris
Jan MEYER (1927-1995) (Lots 212 to 222)
Jan Meyer, whose name is uniformly spelled Jan Meijer, is a Dutch painter, lithographer and engraver born on 6 December 1927 in Assen. It was like Raoul
Ubac and Pierre Dmitrienko, who would become his friends, that he moved to Dieudonné in 1960, where, in his hillside studio, he unblocks the tubes of paint with large knife blows, crushing the homogenous superimposed pastes on the canvas, at the same time as he became a collector of primitive arts.
Jan Meyer belongs to the current of lyrical abstraction. He received his first training working with the typographer Hendrik Werkman, who was arrested and summarily shot dead by the Gestapo a few days before the end of the Second World War. It was after the war that Jan Meyer became friends with the poet Evert Rinsema. Thanks to him, he discovers and admires Mondrian's work and gets closer to the Dada movement in Holland. Rinsema also introduced him to Kirchner's expressionist work.
He attended courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam for a while, and from 1947 onwards he took part in the exhibitions of the De Ploeg group, to which he remained attached. At the end of the 1940s, he continued his development and travelled throughout Europe. He was awarded a scholarship which was extended until 1951. He discovers the landscapes and museums of the "south"... The 1950s is the decade of his first trips to France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and, especially from 1953, Italy. He rubbed shoulders with Lucio
Fontana, Yves Klein, Antonio Saura, Karel Appel and Corneille. In 1976 and 1977, Jan Meyer taught the technique of carborundum engraving at Fairleigh-Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, and at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
During this same period, he spent time in
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