Still life with two eggshells

Butter with two bottles

Oil paint on painter's board

2008

13 x 15 cm

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Oil paint on painter's board

1990

90 x 82 cm

Available

To be documented


Small but exquisite. It is sometimes said that you can measure the quality of a painter by how he paints hands and eggs. Eggs are evidently quite a challenge. Throughout his entire oeuvre, Henk Helmantel demonstrates that he possesses the technique to paint eggs. On this very small work, he has succeeded admirably.