Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Auction Closed
May 22, 08:55 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Connecticut Collection
JOHANNES BOUMAN
(Strasbourg 1601 - 1658 Utrecht)
STILL LIFE OF FRUIT IN A KRAAK BOWL, ON A LEDGE
signed on ledge lower right: Boumann fec
oil on panel
23¼ by 29¼ in.; 59 by 74.3 cm.
New York art market, 1952
Victor Spark, New York, until 1965, when sold to private collector;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1988, lot 98;
There acquired.
W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979, vol. I, reproduced pl. 178.
Jean-Jacques Bauman was born in Strasbourg and adopted the Dutch form of his name when he relocated to Amsterdam in or before 1622. He drew inspiration from German still life painters like Georg Flegel, as well as from Dutch and Flemish artists like Ambrosius Bosschaert. Bouman specialized in food still lifes and included luxury items from the far East like the present kraak bowl. The same bowl appears frequently in the artist's work, suggesting that he had enough financial success to own such an item.