Composition no. 6

Jacoba van Heemskerck (in 1913)

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Marilyn Maione asked

I would like to buy a print of Composition no. 6. How can I go about it?
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

Hi Marilyn, Unfortunately we don't have prints. You could have a print made yourself from a jpeg or a hi res file. Jpegs can be downloaded from the website. A hi res file can be requested at images@boijmans.nl. Best, Els

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This composition by Jacoba van Heemskerck shows a tree in a forest. In this period, Van Heemskerck was influenced by the new trends in art. The artist was particularly interested in the visual language of cubism and was attracted by the ideas and form world of the expressionist artist group Der Blaue Reiter. Based on stylistic considerations, this work is dated around 1913.

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Title	Composition no. 6
Material and technique	Oil on canvas
Object type	Painting > Painting > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Width 100,5 cm Height 120,5 cm
Artists	Artist: Jacoba van Heemskerck
Accession number	2072 (MK)
Credits	From the estate of M. Tak van Poortvliet, 1936
Department	Modern Art
Acquisition date	1936
Creation date	in 1913
Collector	Collector / Marie Tak van Poortvliet
Internal exhibitions	De collectie als tijdmachine (2017)
External exhibitions	De Stijl (2010) Boijmans bij de Buren - Branding Rotterdam (2019) Langdurig bruikleen Vught (2021) Boijmans bij de Buren - Meesterlijk! (2019)
Material	Canvas > Worked fibres > Fibre > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Oil > Paint > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Painting > Painting > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe

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Jacoba van Heemskerck

Den Haag 1876 - Domburg 1923

Jacoba van Heemskerck studied at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague from 1897 to 1901. She subsequently worked for six months at Eugène Carrière's...

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