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Isaac Israels
(Dutch, 1865-1934)
Four girls on the Prinsengracht, Amsterdam

25 September 2024, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Isaac Israels (Dutch, 1865-1934)

Four girls on the Prinsengracht, Amsterdam
signed 'ISAAC/ISRAELS' (lower left)
oil on canvas
112 x 137cm (44 1/8 x 53 15/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Collection J.M.P. Glerum, Amsterdam, no. A113.
Anon. sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 26 September 1933, no. 77.
The collection of Mrs. H. v.d. Waerden, Amsterdam.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 28 April 1998, lot 213.
Private collection, USA.

Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Isaac Israels, 1959, no. 9.

Literature
Anna Wagner, Isaac Israels, Venlo, 1985, p. 46, illustration 29.
Tableau, vol 9, no. 9, summer 1987.

The son of The Hague School painter Jozef Israels, the young Isaac's precocious talent saw him enrolled at art school aged just thirteen. At fifteen, one of his paintings was purchased by The Hague painter Henrik Willem Mesdag, before the paint was even dry.

Israels continued his artistic education at Amsterdam's Art Academy, dividing his time between the beaches of Scheveningen and the streets of Amsterdam, where, alongside his great friend George Hendrik Breitner, he tried to capture snapshots of the bustling city: people gossiping, couples conversing in parks, elegant figures dining. Later travelling to Paris and London, his quick, fluid technique was well suited to capturing city life. Here, Israels had captured a group of women walking along the Prinsengracht, one of the bustling canals in the centre of Amsterdam.

Israels later returned to The Hague, taking over his father's studio, where he remained based until his death in 1934.

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