The Zeeuws Veilinghuis has a history of auctioning Indonesian paintings.
The May 2011 sale contains works by Rudolf Bonnet, Auke Sonnega, Frits Lucien Ohl, Hans Snel, Willem Dooijewaard, Willem Imandt, Ernst Agerbeek.
More info about the most important lots:
With provenance Mr. R. Claessens (1906-1992):
Auke Sonnega (1910-1963):
With provenance Mr. R. Claessens (1906-1992):
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6505: Auke Sonnega (1910-1963), oil on canvas, 61 x 70 cm.
Estimate: € 15.000 – 20.000. |
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| 6507: Auke Sonnega (1910-1963), oil on canvas, 51x 43 cm. Estimate: € 4.000 – 6.000. |
Mr. Claessens (1906-1992), was director of the enterprise SIPEF Indonesia. He bought these paintings directly from Auke Sonnega. SIPEF, a company producing and trading commodoties like rubber, palmoil and tea was at that time one of the biggest companies in Indonesia.
On the photographs below you can see his wife in the interior of his house and the paintings on the background.
From other properties:
6508: Auke Sonnega (1910-1963), ‘Portrait of I. Wajan Parsa’, oil on canvas,
dated Ubud ’56, 43.5 x 35.5 cm. Estimate: € 5.000 – 7.000.
Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978):
With provenance Gerard Anthonius van Putten (1873, Semarang – 1956, Den Haag):
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6511: Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978), ‘Mohammed Ben Sala Ben Abd el Kader Kairouan 1928’,
signed, pastel on paper, 74 x 107 cm.
Estimate: € 6.000 – 8.000. |
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6512: Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978), ‘Portrait of a Tunesian man’,
signed, dated Kairoan 1928, pastel on paper, 68,5 x 46,5 cm.
Estimate: € 2.000 – 3.000. |
Gerard Anthonius van Putten bought the works directly from Rudolf Bonnet. Van Putten was director of the company G.A. van Putten en Co, an agency firm which had clients such as the Rotterdamse Lloyd and the Mercantile Bank of India Ltd. The company had offices in Cheribon, Tegal and Pekalongan. He became a wealthy man and at the age of 40 he came back to Holland were he asked the architect Co Brandes to build the famous Villa Maarheze in 1914.
From other properties:
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| Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978), 24 x 34 cm. Estimate: € 500 – 700. |
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| Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978), ‘Antonietta’, 26,5 x 19,5 cm. Estimate: € 300-400. |
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| Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978), dated 1930 and ‘Weltevreden?’, 29 x 27 cm. Estimate: € 500-700. |
Ernst Agerbeek (1904-1945), 7 lots
Ernst Agerbeek was born in Indonesia and also lived there, but studied in Brussels. He was member of the ‘artists association’ Vereeniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars at Jakarta. At the end of World War II the Japanese killed him because he had been a member of the resistance.
Work of Agerbeek is quitte rare. In the Magazine Elsevier (7-1930, ‘Indië in de schilder- en teekenkunst’) is said that his infuences come from artists like Jan Toorop (the most important Dutch artist around 1900), Breughel (Flemish old master) and Jacovleff (a Russian).
All the works in our auction come directly from the familiy of Agerbeek.
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| 6524: Ernst Agerbeek (1904-1945), ‘Mariaprocessie’, oil on canvas, 105 x 132 cm. Estimate: € 3.000 – 5.000. |
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| 6526: Ernst Agerbeek (1904-1945), ‘Funeral’, watercolour, 76 x 93 cm. Estimate: € 1.000 – 1.200. |
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6527: Ernst Agerbeek (1904-1945), ‘Jesus and two travellers to Emmaus’,
watercolour, 73 x 90 cm.
Estimate: € 1.000 – 1.200. |
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| 6525: Ernst Agerbeek (1904-1945), ‘The burial of Christ’, drawing, 25 x 24 cm. Estimate: € 100 – 150. |
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| 6530: Ernst Agerbeek (1904-1945), ‘Hooge nood in de dessa (toilet in the dessa)’, pen drawing, afm. 22 x 27 cm. Estimate: € 200 – 300. |
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| 6528: Ernst Agerbeek (1904-1945), ‘Zaterdagavond genoegens (Saturday evening fun)’, pen drawing, 22 x 27 cm. Estimate: € 200 – 300. |
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| 6529: Ernst Agerbeek (1904-1945), ‘Have You Bananas?’, pen drawing, 22 x 27 cm. Estimate: € 200-300. |
Other Artists:
6518: Frits Lucien Ohl (1904-1976), ‘Chinese boat’, oil on board, 50 x 40 cm.
Provenance: Kunsthandel Gebroeders Koch, Den Haag.
Estimate: € 1.500 – 2.000.
6519: Han Snel (1925-1998), ‘Portrait of his wife I. Made Siti’, dated 1956, Bali, 45 x 40 cm.
Estimate: € 2.000 – 2.500.
6520: Willem Dooijewaard (1892-1980), ‘Balinese dancers’, oil on panel, 31 x 39,5 cm.
Estimate: € 2.000 – 3.000.
Estimate: € 2.000 – 3.000.
For more information about this auction:
René de Visser
Zeeuws Veilinghuis
Herengracht 74
4331 PX Middelburg
Tel. +31(0) 118-650680,
Fax. +31(0) 118-650682.
www.zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl
