Zeeuws Veilinghuis, auteur op Zeeuws Veilinghuis https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/writer/zeeuws-veilinghuis/ Het Zeeuws Veilinghuis behoort tot de top van Nederland en België en heeft vestigingen in Middelburg en Amsterdam. Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:50:30 +0000 nl-NL hourly 1 https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/storage/2019/06/cropped-favicon2-32x32.png Zeeuws Veilinghuis, auteur op Zeeuws Veilinghuis https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/writer/zeeuws-veilinghuis/ 32 32 Zeeuwse schilderijen – Veiling 6 december 2018 https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/zeeuwse-schilderijen-veiling-6-december-2018-2/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:20:00 +0000 In onze veiling van 6 december 2018 verkopen wij o.a. diverse werken van Zeeuwse kunstenaars, waaronder Reimond Kimpe, W.F.A.I. Vaarzon Morel, Dirk Jan Koets en...

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In onze veiling van 6 december 2018 verkopen wij o.a. diverse werken van Zeeuwse kunstenaars, waaronder Reimond Kimpe, W.F.A.I. Vaarzon Morel, Dirk Jan Koets en Willem Dooijewaard.

Hieronder vindt u een selectie van vijftien werken die geveild zullen worden.

Kavel 337:
Maurice Góth (1873 – 1944)
‘Haven van Veere, met de toren van St. Tropez’, gesigneerd l.o., doek.
Afm. 97 x 78 cm.

Richtprijs € 800 – 1000

Kavel 341:
W.F.A.I. Vaarzon Morel (1868 – 1955)
‘De Grote Kerk van Veere’, gesigneerd r.o., pastel.
Afm. 61 x 46 cm.

Richtprijs € 400 – 500

Kavel 342:
W.F.A.I. Vaarzon Morel (1868 – 1955)
‘Vissersvloot van Arnemuiden voor de kust van Walcheren’, gesigneerd l.o., marouflé.
Afm. 37 x 58 cm.

Richtprijs € 500 – 1000

Kavel 343:
W.F.A.I. Vaarzon Morel (1868 – 1955)
‘Markt in Veere’, gesigneerd l.o., doek.
Afm. 54,5 x 68 cm.

Richtprijs € 1500 – 2000

Kavel 344:
W.F.A.I. Vaarzon Morel (1868 – 1955)
‘Carrousel te Parijs’, gesigneerd r.o., doek.
Afm. 50 x 52 cm.

Richtprijs € 15.000 – 20.000

Kavel 346:
Dirk Jan Koets (1895 – 1956)
‘Zandafgraving bij Veere’, gesigneerd r.o., doek.
Afm. 31 x 39 cm.

Richtprijs € 600 – 800

Kavel 348:
Dirk Jan Koets (1895 – 1956)
‘Gezicht op Veere’, gesigneerd l.o., marouflé.
Afm. 37,5 x 40,5 cm.

Richtprijs € 500 – 600



Kavel 336:
Gustave Flasschoen (1868 – 1940)
‘Op de dijk bij Yerseke’, gesigneerd l.o., paneel.
Afm. 32 x 40,5 cm.

Richtprijs € 600 – 800

Kavel 340:
Gustave Flasschoen (1868 – 1940)
‘Op weg naar de markt’, gesigneerd r.o., doek.
Afm. 52 x 73,5 cm.

Richtprijs € 600 – 800




Kavel 349:
Dirk Jan Koets (1895 – 1956)
‘De Vismarkt te Middelburg’, gesigneerd r.o., doek.
Afm. 40,5 x 56 cm.

Richtprijs € 600 – 800

Kavel 354:
Elsbeth de Kuyper – Rijken (1954)
‘Stilleven met peren, zaadfles en aardewerk kan’, gesigneerd en gedateerd 2006 r.o., doek.
Afm. 80 x 100 cm.

Richtprijs € 1000- 1500

Kavel 355:
Alphonsus Josephus van Dijck (1894 – 1979)
‘Gezicht op Westkapelle’, gesigneerd l.o., gouache.
Afm. 22 x 29 cm.

Richtprijs € 400 – 600

Kavel 362:
Reimond Kimpe (1885 – 1970)
‘Bloemstilleven’, gesigneerd l.o., paneel.
Afm. 26,5 x 19,5 cm.

Richtprijs € 800 – 1200

Kavel 363:
Reimond Kimpe (1885 – 1970)
‘Veere’, gesigneerd en gedateerd ’33 l.o, gouache.
Afm. 31 x 40 cm.

Richtprijs € 800 – 1200

Kavel 323:
Willem Dooijewaard (1892 – 1980)
‘Zeeuws meisje’, gesigneerd en gedateerd 1924 l.o., aquarel/pastel.
Afm. 48 x 25 cm.

Richtprijs € 2000 – 3000


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WILLEM GERARD HOFKER (1902-1981) ‘I Sangol, Padang Tegal’ https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/willem-gerard-hofker-1902-1981-i-sangol-padang-tegal/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:54:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/willem-gerard-hofker-1902-1981-i-sangol-padang-tegal/ WILLEM GERARD HOFKER (1902-1981) ‘I Sangol, Padang Tegal’, November 1939, graphite pencil, conté crayon and gouache on coloured paper, 32 x 24 cm   Literature:...

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WILLEM GERARD HOFKER (1902-1981) ‘I Sangol, Padang Tegal’,
November 1939, graphite pencil, conté crayon and gouache on coloured paper, 32 x 24 cm

 

Literature:
– Spruit, R.: Artists on Bali, The Pepin Press, Amsterdam (NL), 1995, p.76, illustrated in colour.
– Hofker, S., & Orsini, G.: Willem Gerard Hofker (1902-1981), Waanders de Kunst, Zwolle (NL), 2013, page 149, plate 191, illustrated in colour.
Exhibition: Europeesche Schilders op Bali, Soerabaiasche Kunstkring, Surabaya, December 1-15, 1939, where Hofker exhibited Balinese work with Bonnet, Spies, Meier, Pol, Pol-Mees and Foster, and most probably sold the present lot.
Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands
‘Willem Hofker is showcasing a dozen very well executed drawings; his art has a subtle finesse, proving his complete control of the crayon. Especially the work in mezzotint reveals some attractive aspects; the gloss on the skin of a Balinese model’s back or breast in brown and light shades, and the fresh colours of a Balinese woman carrying a singha show us we are dealing with dedicated works of art by a most gifted artist.’ (Indische Courant, December 2, 1939)
After his formal education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, and winning second prize at the Prix de Rome in 1924, Willem Hofker became a well-known artist in the Netherlands during the 1930s. In 1936, Willem Hofker was invited by the Batavia headquarters of the KPM (Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij) to make a portrait of the Dutch Queen, Wilhelmina. Moreover, he was asked to combine the portrait presentation in Batavia with a sojourn through the Dutch East Indies and draw documentary impressions of the country. From 1940 onwards, KPM reproduced these drawings to promote boat travels to the Indies. Willem and Maria Hofker happily lived in Bali from 1938 until 1943. Having gone through the horror of war and Japanese camps, Willem and Maria returned to the Netherlands in 1946. The official portraits Hofker made of queens Wilhelmina and Juliana helped to regain his reputation as a portraittist.
Willem Hofker was known to occasionally draw portraits from photographs, both in Bali and the Netherlands, yet with an estimated 1,000 commissioned portraits, he was like no other able to immortalize a human character onto paper or canvas from life: ‘…the lighting is sometimes unimaginable in a dark barn seated on the floor – the natives typically sit on the floor – so you have to do it yourself, otherwise you look down on them! It’s certainly a great adventure for my work and my painting style. Good that I took on this “task”. I hope to come back an Isaac Israels.’
(Willem Hofker, July 23, 1938, Denpasar)
We see I Sangol, a Balinese farmer or petani Bali, dressed in a sarong, and a hat that protects him from the tropical sun. It is a capil, a hat woven from bamboo leaves, with a cilindric band inside that fits the wearer’s head. The shape of the capil differs per region; it depends on which type of flora is growing and available. It seems these spheric capil were typical of the Ubud region. In his sarong, the man seems to hold a dompet, a square woven wallet, notably the only part of the drawing with ochre yellow conté accents. It is not quite clear what Sangol is doing, but he is probably taking a rest, while posing for the artist. Behind him, we see the suggestion of a agricultural instrument. It might be an udud, a rake-like tool to prepare the land for ploughing and planting rice. This is touching an essential part of the indigenous culture. Balinese people don’t see rice merely as food; it is considered a source of life and wealth, created through the symbiosis of Vishnu, God of Water, and Mother Earth. I Sangol was probably a rice farmer, but he might also have been a member of the Padangtegal subak, the local organisation that controls the complex irrigation systems and arranges the region’s planting and harvesting of rice. Perhaps we see Sangol inspecting the soil after other farmers have ploughed the field, preparing the very sawah that Hofker suggests in a few sketchy lines in the distance.
Late November, 1939, Willem and Maria moved from Denpasar to Ubud for a period of six weeks, to see if they would feel at home. The present drawing was made during the first days of this temporary stay at ‘Abangan’. Hofker portrayed I Sangol nearby their new home, at Padangtegal, Ubud.
In Java, during that same period, from September until November 1939, the travelling exhibition ‘European Painters of Bali’ had been running in Batavia and Bandung. Adorning the exhibition with their magnum opus, Bonnet and Spies were arguably the key exhibitors, accompanied by Willem Hofker, Theo Meier, Willem Jilts Pol and his wife, and a female painter called Jane Foster. Hofker sold 4 from the 11 works he had consigned during these two exhibitions, so he decided to add a few more, just before the start of the subsequent exhibition in Surabaya (December 1-15, 1939) where he allegedly exhibited ‘a dozen very well executed drawings’. In a later newspaper review, it is mentioned that Hofker sold 3 of these in Surabaya, one of which must have been the present lot. Selling 7 works in total made Hofker into the exhibition’s best-selling artist by quantity.
The present portrait of the Balinese rice farmer I Sangol is a full-fledged drawing, with intricate pencil and conté details of Sangol’s concentrated facial expression, his hands and feet, and the anatomy of his torso. Hofker cleverly uses the medium of coloured paper by applying white gouache paint to indicate some contre-jour highlights on the sitter’s arms and sarong. This drawing shows Willem Hofker’s remarkable talent to capture not only the personality of the sitter, but more importantly, the representation of an ancient culture. Now, almost 80 years after its completion, I Sangol is presented at auction, restored to the original condition and colours once again, the way Willem Hofker intended.
Gianni Orsini, May 2018
 
 
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LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘Winter journey’ https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/lee-man-fong-1913-1988-winter-journey/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:48:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/lee-man-fong-1913-1988-winter-journey/ LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘Winter journey’, signed l.l., board, 50 x 70 cm.   ‘One of the beautiful and colourful creations by Lee Man Fung’....

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LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘Winter journey’, signed l.l., board, 50 x 70 cm.
 
‘One of the beautiful and colourful creations by Lee Man Fung’. Corn. Basoski about this painting in De Nieuwe Haagsche Courant, May 1950.

Provenance: private collection, The Netherlands.

Exhibited: Lee Man-Fung, exhibition rooms Kunst van onze Tijd, Mauritsplein, The Hague, May 1950. The poster of this exhibition is attached on the back of this painting.

Literature:

– Ly Sengko and Liu Kang; ‘Lee Man Fong’, Hiap Seng Press Co, probably early 1970s. Illustrated as ‘Winter Journey’,

– Corn. Basoski, ‘Lee Man – Fung, de verbeelder van het ongekunstelde’, De Nieuwe Haagsche Courant, May 1950. Illustrated as ‘Paarden-wagen’ (‘Horse cart’).

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GERARD PIETER ADOLFS (1898-1968) Scenery in Songoyudan, Surabaya, Rich Display In a Passer Corner https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/gerard-pieter-adolfs-1898-1968-scenery-in-songoyudan-surabaya-rich-display-in-a-passer-corner/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:43:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/gerard-pieter-adolfs-1898-1968-scenery-in-songoyudan-surabaya-rich-display-in-a-passer-corner/ GERARD PIETER ADOLFS (1898-1968) Scenery in Songoyudan, Surabaya, Rich Display In a Passer Corner signed l.l., canvas 60 x 80 cm. Executed circa 1943. Titled,...

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GERARD PIETER ADOLFS (1898-1968) Scenery in Songoyudan, Surabaya,
Rich Display In a Passer Corner signed l.l., canvas 60 x 80 cm.

Executed circa 1943. Titled, and numbered No. C on the stretcher.

Literature: Borntraeger-Stoll, E., & Orsini, G., Gerard Pieter Adolfs- The Painter of Java and Bali, 1898-1968, Wijk en Aalburg 2008, illustrated full-page on p. 351.

Provenance:
– Private collection, the Netherlands;
– Private collection, granddaughter of the artist.

“When he paints he is like a flying pennant, and he employs his brush like a playful, dancing child. He observes, and he celebrates.”
(Tim Visser, De Koerier, June 29, 1936)

Gerard Pieter Adolfs was born on January 2, 1898 in Semarang, Central Java. He studied architecture in Amsterdam. After graduating, he was drawn back to Java, were he designed houses in Yogyakarta, Solo and Surabaya. During the 1920s he switched, dedicating the rest of his life to painting. From the start of his career as an artist, Adolfs was successful, allowing him to travel for a few months, each year. He exhibited all over the world. The main subjects of his work were scenes of Java, Bali, Japan and of North Africa: portraits, market sceneries, cock-fights, landscapes and townscapes. In 1940 – shortly before the occupation of Holland – Adolfs came back to Europe and settled in Amsterdam. He exhibited in many well-known European galleries. In 1967 he retired to a small Dutch village. On 1 February 1968, Adolfs died in the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

Until 1940, every painting that Adolfs made in the Dutch East Indies was sketched or painted on-site, and then perfected in his Surabaya studio, giving these paintings a realistic, unromanticized feel. From 1940 onwards, Adolfs painted his beloved country and its inhabitants from memory, in his Amsterdam studio.

Executed circa 1943, ‘Scenery in Songoyudan, Surabaya’ is a typical representation of one of Adolfs’ best-kept secrets, his Luminist period (1940-1947). Although Adolfs was very productive in the war years, unfortunately most of the works from that period would subsequently be destroyed in bombing-raids. Few works from his Luminist period have gained any wide renown, probably for this reason.

The works from this period that did survive possess a strong dynamic quality, and a subtle spark of tropical light. They distinguish themselves by their exceptional wealth and intricacy of detail. Not only had Adolfs’s interest in the human face grown, with increasingly portrait-like renderings as a result, but all the major and minor foreground and background elements are thoroughly observed and comprehensively (if impressionistically) captured. Quintessential in the overall effect is the brushwork: Adolfs used forceful, short, mostly rectangular strokes, each subtly different in shade from the next, making faces gain a deep glow, buildings a rich texture, and backgrounds a fervid flamboyance. Typically, all the spices and groceries in ‘Scenery in Songoyudan, Surabaya’ are depicted using small, brightly coloured brush strokes, creating a deeper sense of perspective and luminism.

Emplying repoussoir, a signature effect by Adolfs, is done in a subtle way in the present lot; only a parasol and a warong on the right, and the two women on the left, serve as a way of achieving marked effects of depth, notably not in the direct foreground, but as a middle layer of perspective. Additionally, the woman in the middle of the painting, bending to take her selection of fruit and vergetables, is painted with less contrast and less saturation than the two squatting men in the foreground, which creates a sense of atmospheric perspective. Adolfs actually based the poses of these two men on pictures from his extensive collection of photographs. In Amsterdam, he was even known to have himself photographed by his girlfriend, only wearing underwear, so he was able to study and portray skin, muscles and bone structure in his paintings.

The obvious bright colours that Adolfs uses actually goes back to his Vibrant (Impressionist) period, which started around 1936. It is assumed to stem from several journeys, amongst others to Japan. There, he was introduced to lavishly bright colours in the local flora and fauna, and in the traditional Japanese clothing. From that moment on, it became a part of his painting style:

“In one piece, he brilliantly captures the tranquillity and expanse of the Orient, and the silent introspection of its people. Yet in another, he surprises us again by being as keen an observer of the slender, lithe suppleness, the vibrating inner life of the people of the Orient […] These works derive greatness from their use of colour. That is: they are all, pre-eminently, the visions of a painter. […] If comparisons are called for, I compare Adolfs to that other highly colourful and atmospheric painter: Isaac Israels.”(NN, Haagsche Courant, July 13, 1940)

Indeed, specifically in the current lot, this comparison is not strange. Isaac Israels was well-known for his nonchalant way of painting. Some even referred his way of using the brush as ‘slashing’, with thick, decisive brush strokes. Typically, when observing these six people in ‘Scenery in Songoyudan, Surabaya’, one can see they are portrayed in a quick, suggestive style, similar to Israels. It resulted in a most energetic painting of his beloved native country, with which he had such a deep connection.

Gianni Orsini, May 2018


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WILLEM GERARD HOFKER (1902-1981) ‘Corner of the Heerengracht and Leidschegracht, Amsterdam’ https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/willem-gerard-hofker-1902-1981-corner-of-the-heerengracht-and-leidschegracht-amsterdam/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:36:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/willem-gerard-hofker-1902-1981-corner-of-the-heerengracht-and-leidschegracht-amsterdam/ WILLEM GERARD HOFKER (1902-1981) ‘Corner of the Heerengracht and Leidschegracht, Amsterdam’, signed and dated 1956 l.r., canvas. 70 x 90 cm. Verso: signed, dated and...

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WILLEM GERARD HOFKER (1902-1981) ‘Corner of the Heerengracht and Leidschegracht, Amsterdam’,
signed and dated 1956 l.r., canvas. 70 x 90 cm. Verso: signed, dated and titled.
Provenance: sold by the art dealer Willem Sloot, Amsterdam, on behave of the artist in 1957; farewell gift to an executive of the heavy industry company Jonker – Du Croo, Amsterdam in the 1970’s.
It was 1952 when Willem Gerard Hofker completed three paintings showing the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam for a client in Stuttgart. Encouraged by the satisfying result, he decided to work in the city more often in-between commissions. This resulted in a series of large paintings, created in several years and seasons. He mentioned in a letter: ‘I am so busy this summer, or rather; I make myself very busy. I am working in our beautiful city, encouraged by the result of those cityscapes, which I made in the wintertime. (…) Now this summer I started the sixth.’ And further: ‘The corner of the “Herengracht bij de Leidsegracht”, an enormously complicated work, especially the row of houses, each with its own character.’ 
Clearly Hofker succeeded excellently in capturing the monumental houses on the Herengracht in the presented painting titled ‘Heerengracht, hoek Leidschegracht, Amsterdam 1956’. Take for example the two mirrored houses with neck facades that start out on the right corner and are known as ‘Two sisters’, which date from around 1680. Together with the other houses along the canal that Hofker visualized, flanked by the two bridges, these represent one of the oldest parts of the Herengracht. The triple arch bridge named ‘Vier Heemskinderenbrug’ dates from 1772. Its long balustrade invites you to look more closely and detect, in just a few paint strokes, the ornate wrought iron Ritter lamppost; an ornament in itself, displayed in the Amsterdam street scene. It shows how impassioned Hofker was in emphasizing importance. He also omitted street signs and cars, as these could only distract attention from beauty. The bright sunlight shining through the street illuminates the mostly dark canal, so that the unlikely sharp but masterly reflection of the cityscape suggests a windless summer afternoon. Even the freshness of the young green leaves on the still visible branches contributes to a harmonious interaction between nature and architecture. Hofker managed to visualize tranquility in a busy part of the so-called ‘Grachtengordel’, a part of Amsterdam that has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2010.
Seline Hofker, April 2018
 
 
Auction: Indonesian art, 5th of June 2018.
 
 
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LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘Bathing woman’ https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/lee-man-fong-1913-1988-bathing-woman/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:33:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/lee-man-fong-1913-1988-bathing-woman/ LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘Bathing woman’, signed u.l., board, 73,5 x 37 cm. Provenance: Private collection, The Netherlands. Exhibited: -Exhibition rooms Kunst van onze Tijd,...

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LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘Bathing woman’, signed u.l., board, 73,5 x 37 cm.

Provenance:
Private collection, The Netherlands.

Exhibited:
-Exhibition rooms Kunst van onze Tijd, The Hague, 1949,
-Arti et Amicitia, Amsterdam, 1949.

Literature:
‘Lee Man Fung exposeert in verschillende Nederlandse steden’,
Wereldkroniek, 30th of July 1949, illustrated.

Auction: 5th of June 2018.

 

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LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘After the rain’ https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/lee-man-fong-1913-1988-after-the-rain/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:28:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/lee-man-fong-1913-1988-after-the-rain/ LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘After the rain’, signed u.l., board, 90 x 40 cm. ‘‘How much Lee Man Fong is still attached to ancient Chinese...

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LEE MAN FONG (1913-1988) ‘After the rain’, signed u.l., board, 90 x 40 cm.

‘‘How much Lee Man Fong is still attached to ancient Chinese traditions, despite modern influences, appears from his ‘After the rain’.

This is an exceptionally subdued and harmoniously composed painting, which we could call ‘a symphonic poem in brown and grey’ and in which the resonance of the rustling rain still seems to be recognized.” (H. de Boer, June 1949).

Provenance:
Private collection, The Netherlands.

Literature:

– Siont Teja, ‘Lee Man Fong – Oil Paintings Volume II”, Art Retreat, Singapore, 2005, p. 167 (third painting from the right side).

– H. de Boer, ‘Lee Man Fung, een Chinees schilder exposeert in ons land’, Kunst en kunstleven magazine, June 1949.

Exhibited:
– Exhibition rooms Kunst van onze Tijd, The Hague, 1949, – Arti et Amicitia, Amsterdam, 1949.

Auction: Indonesian art, 5th of June 2018.

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WILHELM CH. CONSTANT BLECKMANN (1853-1942) https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/wilhelm-ch-constant-bleckmann-1853-1942/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:25:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/wilhelm-ch-constant-bleckmann-1853-1942/ ‘Bij Sindanglaja, Java’, signed l.l, canvasboard, 35 x 58 cm. Executed ca. 1890, titled verso. Wilhelm ‘Willem’ Christiaan Constant Bleckmann was born on February 14,...

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‘Bij Sindanglaja, Java’, signed l.l, canvasboard, 35 x 58 cm. Executed ca. 1890, titled verso.

Wilhelm ‘Willem’ Christiaan Constant Bleckmann was born on February 14, 1853 in Batavia, today’s Jakarta. His mother, born in Java and with Indo-European ancestry, was a sister of the renowned Indologist and linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk (1824-1894).

After a formal education in Holland, Bleckmann returned to his native island of Java in 1872, where he worked as a civil servant. An essential turning point in Bleckmann’s life took place in 1877, when he left for the Netherlands on sick leave. There, he was hugely impressed by the paintings of the The Hague School artists, which, following in the footsteps of the Barbizon School, had now risen to great heights, like the Maris brothers and J.H. Weissenbruch (1824-1903). He decided to attend art classes at the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts. After returning to Batavia, he made a dramatic career change, being appointed drawing teacher at the Batavia Willem III gymnasium in 1882. In his spare time, he would depict the Javanese landscape, in and around Batavia, in watercolours and oil paintings. From 1882 until 1898, Bleckmann underwent a huge artistic development, evolving from a Romantic into an Impressionist painter. He did so, after famous painters like Raden Saleh, Salm en Beynon had passed away, and long before the next generation of painters would even think of travelling to the Indies. Bleckmann may have met Mari ten Kate (1831-1910), Maurits van den Kerkhoff (1830-1908), and W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp (1874-1950), but looking at the oeuvres of these artists, there don’t appear to be any (mutual) influences. In 1898, Bleckmann retired at 45, repatriated, and settled in The Hague with his wife and daughter, to become a much appreciated painter in the Dutch art scene.

The present lot is a rare and fine example of Bleckmann’s late 19th century Indonesian oeuvre, made during the rise of the European impressionists, yet painted solitary, at the other end of the globe. The misty Javanese landscape, east of Bogor, near Sindanglaya, exudes the humidity of the tropics. The subtle use of backlight, making the sawah scintillate, and the grazing goats glow, fully justify Willem Bleckmann to be called the first Dutch East Indies Impressionist painter.

Gianni Orsini, May 2018


Auction: 5th of June 2018.

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De avonturen van de schilderijen van Dr. Smook https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/de-avonturen-van-de-schilderijen-van-dr-smook/ Thu, 17 May 2018 13:36:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/de-avonturen-van-de-schilderijen-van-dr-smook/ Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978) is vooral bekend van de werken die hij op Bali maakte. Deze werken zijn erg gewild door verzamelaars in Zuid Oost Azië. Zo...

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Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978) is vooral bekend van de werken die hij op Bali maakte. Deze werken zijn erg gewild door verzamelaars in Zuid Oost Azië. Zo verkochten we al eens een fraaie tekening voor € 380.000. Voor zover ik weet het hoogste bedrag voor een tekening de laatste jaren op een Nederlandse veiling.

Voordat Bonnet naar Bali vertrok, woonde en werkte hij tussen 1920 en 1928 in Italië. Omdat de meeste verzamelaars van werk van Bonnet in Azië wonen, zijn de prijzen voor zijn Italiaanse werk doorgaans lager. Toch komen hierbij ook soms flinke uitslagen voor. Zo werd het hier getoonde, monumentale ‘Ritorno dalla Campagna’ (terugkeer van het platteland) in december afgehamerd op maar liefst € 160.000!

Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978) – ‘Ritorno dalla Campagna’

Het werk heeft een bijzondere historie. In 1924 houdt Bonnet een expositie in Den Haag. Deze terugkeer van Bonnet (in feite zijn eigen ‘Ritorno dalla Campagna’) wordt een groot succes. Hij verkoopt o.a. deze tekening en later wordt het werk verscheept naar Nederlands Indië. Het komt te hangen in het huis van Albert Hendrik Smook, chirurg in dienst van de Deli Maatschappij in en rond Medan (Noord Sumatra) in de jaren 1938-1946. Als chirurg werd hij in de oorlog niet meteen geïnterneerd maar kon/moest blijven werken om Japanse, Duitse en Zwitserse patiënten overeind te houden. Omdat Smook bang is dat het werk door een bombardement zal vergaan, laat hij het met een ambulance overbrengen naar een immens huis waar een collega van hem woonde. Dit huis kreeg echter een andere bestemming, waardoor het werk opnieuw in veiligheid moest worden gebracht. In zijn dagboek schreef hij hierover:

Naar verloop van tijd werd het huis in Soengei Sengkol, wat je nu noemt, een relaxhuis. Het heette nu wel niet ‘Romantica’ maar er waren mooie meisjes en het ging de gasten (officieren) nooit gek genoeg. Ik zag de flessen al door de ruit van de ‘Ritorno’ vliegen. Op dezelfde onderneming woonde een Zwitser, een vrijgezel, maar wel een Venusdienaar. En daar kwamen gevolgen van. We hebben dat zeer discreet geregeld, het is een kwestie tussen ons beide gebleven en er trad volkomen genezing op, ook na provocaties. Hij was enorm dankbaar en wou alles wel. Hij was een echte vrijbuiter en daarom durfde ik het hem ook wel te vragen. Namelijk het in veiligheid brengen van de ‘Ritorno’. Hij heeft ’s nachts ingebroken en de ‘Ritorno’ uit de lijst gehaald. Dat kon want het huis werd alleen in het weekend gebruikt. In een grote landmeetkoker is het werk verpakt waarna hij het geheel heeft ingemetseld. (Citaat uit het boek ‘Een bevlogen heelmeester. Het levensverhaal van Albert Hendrik Smook’). Na de oorlog is het werk in een koker naar Nederland gestuurd.

We verkochten overigens nog een schilderij van deze chirurg. Dit schilderij, gemaakt door Charles Sayers, werd door geallieerden als windscherm gebruikt! Desondanks bracht het toch € 130.000 op, een wereldrecord!

Charles Sayers (1901-1943)

 

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Graf Raden Saleh – Bogor, Indonesië https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/blog/graf-raden-saleh-bogor-indonesie/ Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:56:00 +0000 http://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/geen-categorie/graf-raden-saleh-bogor-indonesie/ Ondergetekende bij het graf van Raden Saleh, april 2018. Bij mijn laatste bezoek aan Indonesië werd ik in Bogor uitgenodigd voor een lunch met zakenlieden....

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Ondergetekende bij het graf van Raden Saleh, april 2018.

Bij mijn laatste bezoek aan Indonesië werd ik in Bogor uitgenodigd voor een lunch met zakenlieden. Eén van hem raadde me aan het graf van Raden Saleh (de Rembrandt van Indonesië) te bezoeken.
Een bijzondere ervaring, maar persoonlijk vind ik dat er een mooiere plaats gekozen had kunnen worden, bijv. bij de botanische tuin te Bogor (daar zijn meer graven uit die periode). Nu ligt het echt verborgen en voor toeristen op een vrij onaantrekkelijke plaats. Raden Saleh had echt beter verdiend.

Wie was Raden Saleh?

Raden Sarief Bastaman Saleh (Terboyo (bij Semarang), 1811 – Buitenzorg, 23 april 1880) was een Indische kunstschilder die vooral bekend is als Raden Saleh. Hij was waarschijnlijk de eerste Indische schilder die een Europese stijl hanteerde. Zijn stijl is vergelijkbaar met de 19e-eeuwse romantiek van Europese schilders uit dezelfde periode, maar hij schilderde meestal onderwerpen die te maken hadden met de cultuur en natuur van Nederlands-Indië.

Raden Saleh was de zoon van een Javaans edelman. Hij werd onderwezen in de schilderkunst door de Belgische schilder Antoine Payen (1792-1853). Payen haalde de regering van Nederlands-Indië over Raden Saleh met een beurs naar Nederland te sturen, waar hij een kunstenaarsopleiding kon volgen. Vanaf 1829 was hij een leerling van de Nederlandse schilders Cornelis Kruseman (1797-1857) en Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870). Van Kruseman leerde hij portretten schilderen, van Schelfhout landschappen.

Raden Saleh – geveild bij Zeeuws Veilinghuis

Na zijn opleiding reisde hij langs Europese hoven waar hij voornamelijk opdrachten voor portretten kreeg. Als “Oosterse prins” was hij een curiositeit, wat waarschijnlijk aan zijn succes bijdroeg. Hij bezocht diverse Europese steden en reisde ook naar Noord-Afrika. In Den Haag liet een leeuwentemmer hem zijn leeuw bestuderen, een studie die hem later bij zijn waarheidsgetrouwe schilderijen van jachtpartijen en dierengevechten hielp. Vanaf 1839 bracht hij vijf jaar door aan het hof van de hertog van Saksen-Coburg en Gotha.

Veel van Raden Salehs werk werd tentoongesteld in het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Bij een brand in het Nederlands koloniaal paviljoen in Parijs ging een aantal van zijn werken verloren.

In 1851 keerde Raden Saleh terug naar Indië, waar hij als conservator voor de koloniale regering werkte. Hij schilderde Javaanse landschappen en portretten van de Javaanse aristocratie. Na terugkomst van een tweede reis naar Europa stierf hij in 1880.

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