Lot 37
  • 37

Jan Sluijters (1881-1957)

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jan Sluijters
  • Adam en Eva
  • signed with the monogram
  • oil on canvas
  • 47 by 60 cm.
  • Painted circa 1914.

Exhibited

Assen / Rotterdam, Het Drents Museum / Kunsthal, Vrouwen, November 2002 - March 2003 / December 2003 - March 2004, no. 131 

Condition

There are several minor retouches on the following places: one situated 3 cm from the left and 11 cm from the top edge, 26 cm from the left and 3 cm from the top edge, 1 cm from the right and 11 from the top edge, 4 cm from the right and 19 cm from the top edge, along the extreme right edge and 35 cm from the top edge and finally one 5 cm from the right and 9 cm from the lower edge. These are only visible in uv-ligth and therefore are not disturbing the image. Otherwise this work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

A large version of this work is currently in the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (inv.no.br. 364)