Adriaen Coorte

The Dutch Adriaen Coorte (1665-1707) is one of these refined, delicate painters who was unfairly forgotten and confined to anonymity. Intimate and honest, he painted constantly still-life, asparagus bunches, sea shells, fruit bowls of small, even tiny format. It is said that he worked onto old paper sheets from books of account, subsequently gluing these papers to some cardboard or some wood board. We realise Coorte was a modest artist, always true to himself.