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Harvest Time - Post Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Modest Huys
Harvest Time - Post Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Modest Huys

Harvest Time - Post Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Modest Huys

By Modest Huys

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed, titled and dated oil on canvas figures in landscape by Belgian post impressionist painter Modest Huys. This stunning piece depicts of workers harvesting a field on a late sum...

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Loading Flax on the Barges - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Modest Huys
Loading Flax on the Barges - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Modest Huys

Loading Flax on the Barges - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Modest Huys

By Modest Huys

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed divisionist landscape oil on canvas by Belgian post impressionist painter Modest Huys. This stunning piece depicts workers on the bank of a river loading flax onto barges.

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Jules VermeireVisage, c.1955

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H 17.72 in W 7.49 in D 4.34 in

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Vermeire was at the centre of this circle, and along with Modest Huys, Pol Dom, and Edgar van Uytvanck they formed the “Open Wegen” group.

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Farmhouse in Spring - Post Impressionist Pointillist Oil Landscape - Modest Huys
Farmhouse in Spring - Post Impressionist Pointillist Oil Landscape - Modest Huys

Farmhouse in Spring - Post Impressionist Pointillist Oil Landscape - Modest Huys

By Modest Huys

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed pointillist landscape oil on canvas circa 1910 by Belgian post impressionist painter, Modest Huys. The piece depicts a view of a farmhouse in a rural landscape on a sunny day ...

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La Grande Parc a Oudenaarde - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Modest Huys
La Grande Parc a Oudenaarde - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Modest Huys

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Signed oil on canvas landscape by Belgian post impressionist painter Modest Huys. This stunning piece depicts a view of The Great Park in Oudenaarde, Belgium.

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Radiant Autumn -Wakken - Post Impressionist Oil, Cows in Landscape - Modest Huys
Radiant Autumn -Wakken - Post Impressionist Oil, Cows in Landscape - Modest Huys

Radiant Autumn -Wakken - Post Impressionist Oil, Cows in Landscape - Modest Huys

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Signed and dated divisionist landscape oil on canvas by Belgian post impressionist painter Modest Huys. This stunning piece is titled "Radiant Autumn - Wakken".

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Snow on the Farm - Post Impressionist Oil, Snowy Winter Landscape by Modest Huys
Snow on the Farm - Post Impressionist Oil, Snowy Winter Landscape by Modest Huys

Snow on the Farm - Post Impressionist Oil, Snowy Winter Landscape by Modest Huys

By Modest Huys

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Signed Post-Impressionist oil on canvas circa 1910 by Belgian painter Modest Huys. This beautifully painted piece depicts a view of a snow covered farmhouse in the deep of winter fro...

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The Harvest
The Harvest

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The Harvest

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Farmhands working in a field on a hot summer's day. Building on iconic depictions of farmworkers by Millet, Huys sought to imbue his figures with a sensitivity and reverence that ...

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La Tour Blessée, Oudenaarde - 20th Century Oil, Figures Cityscape by Modest Huys
La Tour Blessée, Oudenaarde - 20th Century Oil, Figures Cityscape by Modest Huys

La Tour Blessée, Oudenaarde - 20th Century Oil, Figures Cityscape by Modest Huys

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A beautifully painted Post-Impressionist oil on canvas by by Belgian painter Modest Huys. The painting depicts figures in a street scene in front a church with thick white and grey c...

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The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1886, and Postimpressionism — also spelled Post-Impressionism — is usually dated between then and 1905. The term “Postimpressionism” was coined by British curator and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 at the “Manet and the Postimpressionists” exhibition in London that connected their practices to the pioneering modernist art of Édouard Manet. Many Postimpressionist artists — most of whom lived in France — utilized thickly applied, vibrant pigments that emphasized the brushstrokes on the canvas.

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The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.

The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).

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