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Dirk Dalens II belonged to a family of painters active in the northern Netherlands during the seventeenth century. Trained by his father Willem and grandfather Dirck Dalens, he continued a family tradition centred on landscape. A watercolour documented under his name brings together a ruin and a sunlit wood, offering an example of the interplay between vegetation, architecture and light. Its small format directs attention towards the construction of landscape within the restricted space of a sheet. The work appeared in exhibitions of old master drawings in Bremen and Zurich in 1967. It helps place Dalens among artists whose engagement with landscape also included work on paper.
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Watercolour on paper
Ruine im durchsonnten Wald
Aquarell auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2024-12-11
Published result : 900 CHF
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Estimate : CHF 900–1300
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