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Carel Willink
Preliminary study for Camel in Rocky Landscape (not executed), 1958
We can usually link Carel Willink’s (1900-1983) preliminary studies directly to a painting. Preliminary study for Camel in Rocky Landscape is an exception to the rule. Willink painted the camel two years earlier in his Camel in the Park at Versailles (1956), also in the Museum MORE collection.
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this study, Willink surrounds the animal (in an identical stance) with the rocks of Arches National Park (USA). He based this background on a photograph from the journal National Geographic. In the final painting, Willink swapped the camel for two zebras.
Artist
Carel Willink
Title
Preliminary study for Camel in Rocky Landscape (not executed)
Year
1958
Technique
Charcoal and chalk on paper
Size
47.5 x 55 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Drawing
Copyright
© Pictoright/Sylvia Willink
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