6151 - Mauve, Anton

Mauve, Anton Farmer in the Cow Barn. Oil on panel, corners reinforced. 32.1 x 40.7 cm. Signed "Mauve f." (?) in the lower right corner; the signature is difficult to read. Anton Mauve was a leading Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School. However, he first became known in his hometown of Zaandam primarily as a painter of sheep. In 1871, he moved to The Hague. There, he broadened his range of subjects and, in addition to his well-known depictions of animals and barns, increasingly painted people at work. In 1874, he married Ariette Carbentus, a cousin of Vincent van Gogh. Together with Willem Maris and Hendrik Willem Mesdag, he founded the Hollandsche Teeken-Mantschappij (Dutch Drawing Society) in 1876. Starting in 1882, on the recommendation of Jozef Israëls, he regularly spent his summers in Laren in North Holland, where, in addition to the flocks of sheep he continued to seek out, he found further subjects for his landscape paintings. In 1885, he moved there and established another group of artists that became known as the Laren School. Mauve introduced Vincent van Gogh to painting and taught him beginning in 1881, before they fell out in March 1882 and went their separate ways—not least because Mauve suffered from bouts of depression (“they were no different from one another in this regard,” van Gogh noted). In 1888, Anton Mauve died of a sudden heart attack while visiting his brother in Arnhem. - We ask that you request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is usually not listed in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.