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Beans from Carracci

Annibale Carracci, the Bean Eater (1583)Galleria Colonna, RomeThe Carraccis were an important artist family in the Middle Ages. He ran an art academy together with two brothers. The main point was ...

Gepekelde ham van Paul Gauguin - Lyklema Fine Art

Dried pickled ham from Paul Gauguin

Gauguin (1848-1903) believed that every aspect of life should receive the same aesthetic attention as, for example, the human figure. “Don't copy nature too literally. Art is an abstraction.” Gaugu...

The Wave from Hokusai

One of the best-known Japanese prints is The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). He made this work in a series of 36 views of Mount Fuji. Landscapes were a new theme in early 19th century...

Schulman en de Larense School - Lyklema Fine Art

Schulman & the 'Larense School'

If you now walk through Laren and the picturesque Blaricum, you will see that some houses have extra large windows on both the ground floor and the top floor. There is a good chance that a painting...

De Kaasplank van Van Dijck - Lyklema Fine Art

Cheese by Van Dijck

Fruits, bread and three cheeses are laid out sort by kind on a table covered with precious damask cloths. The Haarlem painter Floris Claesz van Dijck is one of the pioneers of Dutch still life pain...

Aardappels met poor men's Caviar van Vincent van Gogh - Lyklema Fine Art

Patato's; poor men's Caviar by van Gogh

The painting 'The Potato Eaters' by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is the most ambitious work from his Dutch period and his first real masterpiece. Before he starts the painting, he makes more than a...

Cross Bridge door Fauvist Derain - Lyklema Fine Art

Cross Bridge by Fauvist Derain

Paintings by Matisse and Vlaminck and Derain were exhibited at the Salon D'automne in 1905 in the cage aux fauve room. This was the inspiration and namesake of a new movement within Expressionism: ...

Magnolia ijs van Wilhelm List

It is spring and so the trees are in bloom, you see the first green shoots coming out of the branches and Magnolia trees are in bloom. This reminds us of a work by Wilhelm List. At the turn of the ...