signed, titled and dated 1985-mixed media on paper-23×33 cm
Provenance and literature
Provenance: Gijs van Tuyl, Amsterdam (old ceo Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam)
About the artist
René Daniëls (Eindhoven, May 23, 1950) is a Dutch artist who focuses primarily on drawing and painting, on both canvas and paper. In 1987, he suffered a stroke; since 2007, he has resumed drawing and also creates small-format paintings.
René Daniëls attended the Art Academy of Den Bosch starting in 1972 and graduated in 1976. According to his artist friend Henk Visch, he studied exclusively in the very free-form “Graphic Arts” department there; in addition, he taught himself painting during those years. In a 1983 interview, he noted that during his student years, a number of German artists strongly captured his attention, such as Markus Raets, Sigmar Polke, and Georg Baselitz. Raets in particular stood out to him at the time due to a working style strongly reminiscent of the Belgian painter René Magritte, with whom Daniëls felt a certain kinship at the time regarding “emotional detachment.”