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Signed Indonesian Painting, Oil on Board, 1937

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Signed Indonesian Painting, Oil on Board, 1937
Peaceful painting of an overgrown landscape with a family entering the open stone gate. Oil on board, signed and dated indistinctly lower right: Maria T- W- (?), 1937 (?).
‘Mooi Indie’ was a genre of painting that occurred during the colonial East Indies that captured the romantic depictions of the Indies as the main themes; mostly natural scenes of mountains, volcanoes, rice paddies, river valleys, villages, with scenes of native servants, nobles, and sometimes bare-chested native women. Some of the notable Mooi Indie painters are European artists: F.J. du Chattel, Manus Bauer, Nieuwkamp, Isaac Israel, PAJ Moojen, Carel Dake and Romualdo Locatelli; East Indies-born Dutch painters: Henry van Velthuijzen, Charles Sayers, Ernest Dezentje, Leonard Eland and Jan Frank