BLOMMERS, BART-JOHN (Dutch, 19th/20th Centuries) "Farm Houses." Signed with the artist's estate stamp, L.R., and on verso. Oil on panel, 8 ½" x 10" (sight); 12" x 13 ½" (framed).

Bart-John Blommers-the family name is also spelled "Bloomers"-was born in the Hague toward the end of the 19th century. He was the son of the well-known Dutch artist Bernardus Johannes Bloomers (1845-1914). Whereas Bernardus followed the realistic academic tradition and established himself as a successful genre painter, known for his domestic interiors and portraits of fisher-folk, his son gravitated toward the impressionists and developed a style favoring looser brush strokes and a pale, high-toned palette. Bart-John Blommers exhibited in Amsterdam, the Hague, Rotterdam, Glasgow, Munich, and Paris. He exhibited a landscape with a windmill at the Salon des Artistes in 1930 and that same year was awarded a prize in Glasgow for a harvest scene. A large number of his paintings, including this small landscape, was sold at an estate auction in Paris at Drouot-Richelieu in 2003. The illustrated auction catalog for that sale is offered with the purchase of the painting. Provenance: David Kahn and Associates, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, March 23, 2003; Antiquarian Art Company, Palo Alto, Ca., 2006.

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