Name: JAAP WAGEMAKER (1906-1972)
Brand: Les baux: le pigeonnier (1)
Price: 7000.00 EUR
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JAAP WAGEMAKER (1906-1972)
Les baux: le pigeonnier (1)
incised with artist's signature and date 'Wagemaker '61' (lower right); signed and dated 'Jaap Wagemaker '61' (on the stretcher), numbered '241' (on the reverse)
mixed media relief on burlap, in artist’s frame
canvas: 190 x 145cm.
overall: 191 x 146cm.
Executed in 1961

Galerie Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

C. Doelman, beeldende kunst in nederland, de informele kunst van Jaap Wagemaker, Amsterdam 1962, no. 11 (illustrated, p. 11).
S. den Heijer and M. van der Knaap, Aarde in verf: Jaap Wagemaker, schilder van het elementaire, 1906-1972, Zwolle 1995, no. S.61-017 (illustrated, p. 100, 166).

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, De Nederlandse bijdrage aan de internationale ontwikkeling sinds 1945, 1962, no. 99.
Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. This exhibition later travelled to Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada.
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Wagemaker, 1965, no. 9.
Groningen, Groninger Museum voor Stad en Lande, Jaap Wagemaker, 1965, no.10.
Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, Jaap Wagemaker, 1979-1980.
This exhibition later travelled to Hilversum, Centrum de Vaart.

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'The painting Duivenstil, also known as Les Baux Le Pigeonnier (cat.no. S.61-017). The latter title was only given after Wagemaker was more or less accidentally confronted with a steep cliff near Les Baux in South of France, ''weathered and sun-blackened , with rows of carved niches, in which pigeons nest.'' In the book of photographs ''Provence noir'' that Wagemaker had in his possession, there is a photograph of a similar rock. The resemblance is striking. It is quite possible that Wagemaker was inspired by this photograph. Several paintings by Jaap Wagemaker can therefore be juxtaposed with photographs of landscape observations and natural or artificial structures.' (S. den Heijer and M. van der Knaap, Aarde in verf: Jaap Wagemaker, schilder van het elementaire, 1906-1972, Zwolle 1995, p. 100).