This early 20th-century oil painting by Dutch artist Louis Albert Roessingh (1873-1951) depicts a heath landscape at twilight.
Under low light and a falling sun, the heath glows with a sense of mysticism and poetry. Nature transformed - at its most lyrical and evocative. Roessingh thrived on these moments, when the land seemed to communicate through shifting tones. The subtle gradients, contorted trees and shimmering puddles. He didn’t seek to embellish a view, simply capture nature’s irresistible beauty at its finest hour.
As a poet and painter, he enlivened his landscapes with suggestion. They elicit a feeling - pose questions if you’re open to them. The trees on the left capture the imagination - there’s a human aspect to them as if they're stretching out across the heath with a deep leafy yawn. While the Autumnal tones convey the passing of time, one’s twilight years.
Around this time, Roessingh often worked in Drenthe, Netherlands, where Van Gogh also found inspiration in 1883.
Signed lower right and held within a 19th-century Rococo revival frame.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 27” x 30” / 68cm x 77cm
Year of creation: c. 1920
Condition: Artwork presents well. Frame with some light wear.
Artist’s auction maximum: £6,230
Louis Albert Roessingh trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and exhibited regularly at numerous salons.
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