Pierre van Soest Painting, Composition, 1962. Oil on canvas.

A powerful early work by Pierre van Soest, often seen as a counterpart to Karel Appel within the post-war Dutch avant-garde. Painted in 1962, the composition shows the raw, gestural energy and expressive abstraction that defined his early period.

His work was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, whose director even published a booklet about his work in admiration.

Van Soest studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and received the Royal Subsidy for Painting in 1953 and 1954.

A bold, expressive, and historically significant abstraction.

Year: 1962