Lot 629: Evert Pieters Oil Painting, Peeling Potatoes

Evert Pieters (Dutch, 1856-1932) oil on board impressionist-style interior genre scene depicting a young girl attired in a blue work dress and head covering who stands by a window with a bench and potted flowering plants, peeling potatoes. Signed “E. Pieters” lower right with artist placard to the lower frame. Housed under glass in a carved gilt and gesso rococo-style frame. Sight: 15 1/2 in. H x 12 1/2 in. W. Framed: 25 in. H x 21 3/4 in. W. Artist Biography: Evert Pieters was born in 1856 in Amsterdam. As a young man, he moved to Belgium (we would be known as The Fleming despite his Dutch roots) where he received early artistic training from the Belgian landscape painter Theodoor Verstraete. In 1894 he won the second class medal at the second world exhibition in Antwerp for his painting “Wheatfield In Flanders” and, in 1896, was awarded the gold medal at the Salon des Champs Elysees in Paris for the same painting. “Wheatfield in Flanders” also won a gold medal in Barcelona in 1898. In addition to landscapes and figural artworks, he painted many still lifes in a style influenced by Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Pieters eventually moved to Blaricum and began painting Gooise interior scenes there, which were well-received. As such, he is among the most prominent Gooise painters. His works are in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the town hall of Brasschaat, the Rijksmuseum of Bilderbeek-Lamaison in Dordrecht, the Frans Halsmuseum in Haarlem, the Museum Hilversum, the Singer Museum in Laren, and museums in Barcelona, The Hague, and Toledo. Pieters died in 1932 and was buried in the St. Janskerkhof in Laren. (Adapted from De Valk lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum)

PROVENANCE: The collection of Charles R. Ragan, KY. 

CONDITION: Painting is in overall very good condition, housed under glass. Minor scattered losses to the frame exterior with some areas of repaint.