Portrait of a woman, verso: resting boys , oil on board, signed Arnout Colnot

Beautiful painting of a woman sitting down, hands folded and resting in her lap.

Thick on paint.

Signed in the right lower corner A. Colnot, Arnout Colnot (1887 – 1983).  Not dated but probably from the 1950s.

The backside, verso, shows also a very attractive artwork of two boys resting after I believe, a boxing game.

Wonderful colours and setting. This work is unfinished it seems as has text and scratched on it. However, this makes it also interesting..

It is unsigned, could be from Colnot as well.

Dimensions including frame: 116 x 91 x 3 cm – excluding frame: 97 x 73 cm

About the artist:

Arnout COLNOT (Amsterdam 1887 – Bergen 1983)

Arnout Jacobus Gustaaf Colnot was a Dutch painter, graphic artist, draftsman and lithographer who belongs to the Bergen School. He was largely self-taught, but also received training in the studio of Jan Maandag. He lived for a period in the painters’ colony of Bergen and later moved to Amsterdam. Like other works of the Bergen School, his paintings had a figurative character with some cubist features. He painted many different landscapes with diverse backgrounds, but also cityscapes and portraits. Colnot’s works can be seen in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and Museum Kranenburgh in Bergen, among others. Painting was in the Colnot family’s blood, Arnout Colnot is the father of the painters Karel and Clara Colnot.