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George Hendrik Breitner
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description
- George Hendrik Breitner
- an indonesian soldier
- signed l.r.
- watercolour heightened with white
- 47 by 32 cm.
Provenance
Sale Amsterdam (Mak van Waay), 24 March 1953, lot 405
Dr. J.A. van Dongen, Amsterdam
Singer Museum, Laren, on loan from the heirs of Dr. J.A. van Dongen
Private collection, The Netherlands
Dr. J.A. van Dongen, Amsterdam
Singer Museum, Laren, on loan from the heirs of Dr. J.A. van Dongen
Private collection, The Netherlands
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, Verzameling Dr. J.A. van Dongen. Nederlandse tekeningen uit de XIXe en XXste eeuw, May-June 1961, cat.no. 17, illustration 19 (as 'Indische soldaat, op zijn geweer leunend')
Deurne, Museum De Wieger, Tekeningen en aquarellen van de Haagse School uit de collectie Van Dongen, 15 December 1978-7 February 1979 (as 'Oosterling')
Deurne, Museum De Wieger, Tekeningen en aquarellen van de Haagse School uit de collectie Van Dongen, 15 December 1978-7 February 1979 (as 'Oosterling')
Literature
P.H. Hefting, G.H. Breitner in zijn Haagse tijd, Utrecht 1970, no. 147 and p. 52 (as 'Staande neger met geweer')
Catalogue Note
According to L.C.J. Frerichs (catalogue Rijksprentenkabinet, 1961), Breitner painted the present lot in the 1880's, when the artist was influenced by Jacob Maris in his colouring. In the depiction of the face Frerichs sees traces of the art of Cormon. Taking this in consideration, it would mean that the present lot probably dates from 1884, when Breitner visited Fernand Cormon in his Paris studio. Compare: J. Sillevis, A. Tabak, Het Haagse School boek, Zwolle/Den Haag 2001, p. 370. Paul Hefting dates the watercolour a year earlier, in 1883.