A portrait of a lady with a hat

Details

Jan Sluijters (1881-1957)
A portrait of a lady with a hat
signed 'Jan.Sluijters' (upper left)
oil on canvas
128.5 x 96.5 cm.
Painted circa 1911

Provenance

H. Baucke.
Anonymous sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, September 1938, lot 767 (titled 'Gonnie').
B. de Geus van den Heuvel, Nieuwersluis, his sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 27 April 1976, lot. 357.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 17-18 November 1981, lot 614.
Acquired by the present owner in 2003.

Literature

Jan Juffermans, Jan Sluijters, schilder, Mijdrecht 1981, p. 125
(illustrated).

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Romantiek tot Amsterdamse school, schilderijen uit de collectie B. de Geus van den Heuvel, 7 July - 29 September 1958, no. D. 27.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The sitter in the present lot is Trudi Körner, a friend of Sluijters' second wife Greet van Cooten. Sluijters painted Trudi circa 1911, when he was very productive and experimented with the diverse avant-garde movements that were flourishing at the time in Europe. Especially Cubism and Expressionism had a great influence on him. Sluijters never belonged to one movement, he considered himself first and foremost a painter of reality. For him the most important was fulfillment in painting and trying to work out challenges in form and colour.

To be included in the catalogue raisonné on the artist's work, currently being prepared by the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in the Hague.

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