3589 - 4774 FINE ARTS - MODERN ART. PRINTS, DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, CERAMICS and SCULPTURES
- One print tipped onto mount.
- Textleaf foxed (as usual), otherwise fine.
= Preface, dated "Paris 1931", by Valentin Bresle. Nice and rare series of female nudes by Jeanne Oosting, dedicated to R.[oline] W.[ichers] W.[ierdsma].
- Textleaf foxed (as usual), otherwise fine. Frontcover portfolio w. scratched spots.
= Preface, dated "Paris 1931", by Valentin Bresle. Nice and rare series of female nudes by Jeanne Oosting, dedicated to R.[oline] W.[ichers] W.[ierdsma].
- Sl. yellowed/ foxed, especially in blank margins.
- Some offsetting in margins from fomer passepartout.
= Dicky Bijlstra-van der Zee, daughter of Jan van der Zee.
- Three minor stains in upper left corner.
AND 4 other drawings by the same (incl. 1 on scraperboard), 1 signed "Bijmoer" and 3x monogrammed "B", i.a. (Two farmers working the land) (pen and black ink, 29x41 cm., signed "Bijmoer". Trifle foxed). - ADDED: 6 other drawings, various sizes, incl. 4 drawings in pen and black ink by OTTO DICKE (all signed in full. Possibly illustrations for a never published children's book titled "Mensenjacht in het bevroren Labrador" (a drawing of this title is included in the lot) and a drawing by J. BERTRAMS.
= Costume designs for the Operas The Golden Cockerel and The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov) and Prince Igor (Borodin). Incl. 2 designs in duplicate with very subtle differences.
WITH: a col. gouache drawing and 4 (duplicate) hand-/ pochoir col. prints of a parrot ("Ara Araraun"), prob. referring to the parrot in The Golden Cockerel. - AND WITH: 2 large gouache drawings of flowers and fruit, w. calligraphed Latin captions. - ADDED: a book publication on Russian music and composers.
- Sl. sunned; pinholes in corners.
= Very rare. Besides an office clerk Adolf Blitz was a landscape painter and during the 1930's he designed book covers for the publishers Boekenvrienden Solidariteit and Het Nederlandsch Boekengilde. He and his wife died in the concentration camp of Sobibor.
Kamp, J.B. (1899-1953). (A young woman and her mother walking on a street lined with factories). Woodcut, 47,2x23,5 cm., signed "Kamp" in the block, on thin paper.
- Laid down on modern Japanese.
AND 4 other woodcuts, i.a. by F.J. KLOEK, G. HORDIJK (dam.) and H.J. CALKOEN (w. closed tear).
- Partly sl. yellowed. = Provenance: the collection of Liesbeth Brandt Corstius and Kees Broos.
= Jo Boer is mostly known as an author, i.a. of the novel "Kruis en Munt". She took drawing lessons from Chris Lebeau and Jan Toroop. After various conflicts with her mother, she moved in with the artist Charley Toorop in 1924 who also gave her lessons.