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OTTO VAN REES (1884-1957)
Composition/ Moeder en Kind
signed 'Van Rees' (lower left)
oil on burlap
96 x 74cm.
Painted in 1911
Provenance
Han Coray, Switzerland (acquired directly from the artist).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
F.M. Huebner, Drie neue Malerie in Holland, Leipzig 1921.
A.B. Loosjes-Terpstra, Moderne kunst in Nederland 1900-1914, Utrecht 1987, no. 159 (illustrated, pp. 172-173).
E. van Faassen et al., Otto van Rees, Zwolle 2005, no. 81 (illustrated p. 220).
1912 - Mission Moderne, exh. cat., Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 2012 (illustrated, pp. 157 & 572).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Moderne Kunstkring, 1912, no. 180.
Cologne, Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Aachener Tor, Sonderbundausstellung, 1912, no. 281.
Berlin, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, 1913, no. 312.
Prague, Mánes Galerie, Moderni Umêni, 1914, no. 83.
Basel, Galerie Corray, 1re Exposition Dada, 1917.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tentoonstelling Otto van Rees, 1926, no. 6.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Otto van Rees, 1960-1961, no. 6.
Zürich, Kunsthaus, DADA-Ausstellung zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum, 1966, no. 225. This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d'Art moderne.
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Het nieuwe wereldbeeld. Het begin van de abstracte kunst in Nederland 1910-1925, 1973, no. 11.
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Otto en Adya van Rees. Leven en werk tot 1934, 1975, no. 58 (illustrated, p. 74). This exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum.
Ascona, Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Otto van Rees, 1994, no. 29.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1912 - Mission Moderne, 2012, no. 281.
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