Good morning, everyone, it's Thursday, and in the past half week, how are you doing?
The work introduced to you today is a fruit still life painting.
Adriaen Coorte was a small but unpretentious still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
All of his works have the same simple layout: some fruit, vegetable or nut on a stone tabletop in the light on a black background. You may remember his work Strawberry
In this work, Kurt paints five apricots that look soft and tactile as velvet. Between the fruits, there is also a small branch of an apricot tree. He accentuated the edges of the crumpled leaves with small white brushstrokes. As always, the artist placed his signature on the edge of the table.
Cotter's accident in the small city of Middelburg was clearly unknown to his contemporaries, as was Vermeer a century ago, and he was almost completely forgotten until the Dutch art historian Laurens J. Bol restored his reputation in the 1950s, starting with an article in 1952 and eventually publishing the first monograph and catalogue of works about Kurt published in 1977.
In 1958, Bohr arranged an exhibition of 35 curt's works at the Dordrechts Museum in Dordrechts, which caused a sensation in the Netherlands, and poets Hans Faverey and Ed Leeflang were inspired by these paintings. In 2003, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hosted an exhibition. In 2008, a new traveling exhibition was held; The success of "Song Cote" made Cotter the most famous Dutch Baroque painter of recent decades for his "rediscovery". Two of his newly discovered paintings were auctioned on December 1, 2009, a testament to Cotter's recent popularity, with each painting selling for more than ten times the estimated price.