JOOP SMITS

"Untitled: Coastal View with Harbour, Man and Donkey", signed lower right, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 100.2cm (20 x 40in) - Joop Smits was born in 1938 in the Province of North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands; he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, and made study trips to Spain, Greece, and Portugal; exhibitions of his paintings have been held in Holland, Belgium, on the island of Ibiza, and in Greece