Marie Dagnelie - (wife of Simeon ten Holt) - - Villa near Longues, France - - ca.1964 - Sold

Sheet size 58x40 cm.

Placed behind the original passepartout.

Behind glass, in a wooden frame.

Glass breakage is at the buyer's risk during shipment. Advice to ship without glass.

SHIPPING BELGIUM/GERMANY/ABROAD: WITHOUT FRAME/GLASS/PASSEPARTOUT. ONLY THE WATERCOLOR (ROLLED).
Marie (nickname ''Riet'') Dagnelie was born February 4, 1918 in Den Helder. In Amsterdam she was a student at the Rijksacademie and met the composer Simeon ten Holt during the war years, with whom she also married and had two children. She painted, drew and watercolored excellent portraits (especially children's portraits), figure representations, impressionistic landscapes (forest and dunes), city and harbor views in a figurative style. In France she made watercolors of the ever-fascinating and changing French landscape, from the Breton coast to Provence. During her time at the academy she also made murals, in addition she designed bookbindings, book or dust jackets, especially for children's books. She herself said about her work in 1981: ''It was always the natural thing that I looked for in my subjects and in my way of working. Probably in response to all the machine violence that comes our way, the pure and pristine has become of increasing importance to me'”. Riet Dagnelie died April 6, 1984 in Amerongen. Source: Shin 1969/1970.