Jan Sluijters Sr. (1881 - 1957, clean sleeping star 1906, oil on panel -outs size: 32 x 27 cm, inner sizes: 20 x 15 cmjan sluijters, together with Leo Gestel and Piet Mondriaan is one of the first Dutch 'moderns'. In the beginning of the 20th century, Sluijters is looking for Connection with the European Avant-Garde in Paris. There he is introduced to neo-impressionism, fauvism, luminism, cubism and expressionism on the Salon des Independants, new art movements with which he almost all experiments the 15 years. As ambitious and virtuoso Painter is Sluijters looking for new forms of expressing and he introduces light and color in Dutch painting.