Modern & Contemporary Day Auction

Jan Toorop

Het Offer (The Sacrifice)

VAT reduced rate

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jan Toorop

1858 - 1928

Het Offer (The Sacrifice)

a. signed JThToorop, and indistinctly dated (lower left)

b. signed JThToorop, dated 1927. and inscribed MOEDER Agnes WESTERMANN (lower left)

c. signed JThToorop. and dated 1927. (lower right), inscribed Heil: Paterke van Hasselt (upper right) and PAULUS: I. THESS. 4,1-7 (lower left)

d. dated 1927 and inscribed Zuster an Huf. S.R.S. Reinildehius – Amsterdam (lower right)

e. signed JThToorop. and dated 1927. (lower right)

pencil, coloured pencil and crayon on paper

a. 21.6 by 60cm., 8½ by 23⅝in.

b. 21 by 12.5cm., 8¼ by 4⅞in.

c. 21.8 by 19.3cm., 8⅝ by 7⅝in.

d. 21 by 23.5cm., 8¼ by 9¼in.

e. 21 by 44.2cm., 8¼ by 17⅜in.

Executed in 1927.

Please note that the successful buyer of this lot will be unable to collect this lot immediately after the sale. Please contact the department for further details.

Wilhelmus Josephus Rudolphus Dreesmann, Amsterdam (probably the commissioner of the work)
Anton Caspar Rudolphus Dreesmann, Amsterdam (by descent from the above by 1954)
Maria Christina Johanna Van Spaendonck-Dreesmann, Belgium (by descent from the above)
Weijermars Antiquairs, Amsterdam (by circa 1999-2000)
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in circa 1999-2000

Albert Charles Auguste Plasschaert and Jan Nieuwenhuis, Jan Toorop Herdenking, 1929, illustrated p. 9
J. van Kilsdonk, Bij de dood van een bijzondere vrouw, Zijn er nog heiligen nabij, Maasbode, 1961, second drawing illustrated p. 7
Gerard van Wezel, Jan Toorop: Zang der Tijden, The Hague/Zwolle, 2016, no. 388, illustrated in colour p. 240 (as a single sheet)