Lot 168
  • 168

Viool spelend meisje, a lithograph by Jan Toorop and two other works 1904

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • the two drawings with annotations in pencil on the back, the portrait with annotation in ink (probably by Jan Toorop) 'schets van Jan Toorop. Charley Toorop'
  • resp. 27,2 x 21,3 xm; 17,5 x 16 cm; 23 x 21, 5 cm (incl. frames)
lithograph on the cover of the catalogue Tentoonstelling van schilderijen, aquarellen en teekeningen door Jan Toorop, Amsterdam, Fr. Buffa & Zonen, depicting Jan Toorop's daughter Charlie as a young girl, playing the violin, signed on the stone, framed (the complete catalogue); together with a small crayon drawing of sailing ships by Jan Toorop and a small crayon portrait sketch by Charley Toorop of her father Jan

Provenance

Viool spelend meisje: Sotheby's Amsterdam 1986, sale AM0427, collection Dommisse, lot 421

Literature

Exhib. Cat. Amsterdam Printroom 1969, p. 35, no. 72a, fig. 72; Coelen, 2003, p. 89, fig. 19 

Condition

the book with cover charley playing the violin: some discolouration, usual traces of age, some usual wear along the edges and extreme corners, otherwise in good condition portrait: 10 small foxing spots visible in the background of the image as can be seen on the illustration, otherwise in good condition sea landscape: two tears along the left edge as can be seen on the illustration, overall discolouration and usual wear.
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Catalogue Note

When Charley was a young girl her father Jan Toorop proudly wrote to his fellow-artist Dirk Nijland that she was already an accomplished violinist