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Details

Thijs Rinsema (1877-1947)
Untitled
a specimen wood inlaid box
7.5 x 12 x 12 cm.
Executed circa 1924

Provenance

The estate of the artist.
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner.

Literature

R. Hodel, Thom Mercuur, Museum Belvédère, de collectie, Heerenveen, 2004, p. 40. (illustrated, attributed to Kurt Schwitters).

Exhibited

Nijmegen, Cultureel Centrum de Lindenberg, Thijs Rinsema: een Dada-episode in Friesland, 14 April - 14 May 1972, no. 56.

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

These two Merz/Dada boxes from around 1924 by Thijs Rinsema are beautiful examples of the influence Kurt Schitters had on the artist. Schwitters, who regularly visited Rinsema in Drachten in the early 1920s was a huge inspiration to Rinsema. Together they would collect all sorts of materials they found on the streets and make Dada collages out of it. This process developed in the making of the collage boxes. Rinsema’s boxes were already popular at the time and they sold well. He also used the boxes to exchange with other artist’s like Charley Toorop, she wrote him the following in 1925: “Het komt mij best uit te ruilen, want er is zoveel te betalen. Ik zend U een teekening (jongenskop) en een ets. Als u dit niet goed vind, voor het restant en de nieuwe doos dan schrijft u het maar. Vader vind het doosje heel mooi. En ik zie verlangend het andere tegemoet.” (T. Rinsema, Thijs/Evert Rinsema eigenzinnig en veelzijdig, Drachten, 2011, p. 127).

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