Henk Fortuin (1916-2007) La Roque Gageac Dordogne

Henk FORTUIN
(Maasluis 1916 – Schiedam 2007)
La Roque Gageac
Oil on canvas
H. 58 cm; W. 60 cm
Signed lower right
Around 1960

Dutch painter, Fortuin represented throughout his career the region of the city of Maasluis where the foundation that bears his name is now based and contains his works.

Made in France during the only two years that the artist left his hometown, our painting was donated like many others by the artist to the "BKR" system. Unknown in France, this principle had been founded by the Dutch state during the 1950s in order to support contemporary artists and distribute their work through the country's institutions. Each artist had to provide a work every three months to the BKR in order to be financed in return. This work is part of it as stipulated by the label on the stretcher. Treated in a way approaching the work of the Périgord Mauricie Albe, this work representing La Roque Gageac is structured from the front, so as to see only a very small area of sky. No horizon, no vanishing point, the composition is strict and plays with the similar tones between rock and houses, playing with their reflections in the dark waters of the Dordogne.