Name: Jaap Wagemaker (1906-1972)
Brand: Donker Grijs I (Dark Grey I)
Price: 6500.00 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

Jaap Wagemaker (1906-1972)
Donker Grijs I (Dark Grey I)
incised with the artist’s signature and date 'Wagemaker '69' (lower right); signed, numbered and dated 'jaap Wagemaker '69 426' (on the reverse)
mixed media relief on canvas laid on plywood, in artist’s frame
100 x 75cm.
Executed in 1969

Collection Wolf & Ursula Hermann, Bremen (acquired directly from the artist circa 1970).
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above circa 1988).
Anon. sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 21 April 2016, lot 158.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

S. den Heijer and M. van der Knaap, Jaap Wagemaker, Schilder van het Elementaire, Zwolle 1995, no. S.69-004 (illustrated, pp. 114 and 186).

Darmstadt, Ausstellungsgebäde auf der Mathildehöhe, 16 Jahresaustellung der Neuen Darmstädter Sezession, 1969.
Venlo, Cultureel Centrum Venlo, Jaap Wagemaker. Schilderijen en Gouaches, 1970.
Lübeck, Overbeckgesellschaft, Jaap Wagemaker, 1972.
Wilhelmshaven, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Kunst aus unsere Zeit. Sammlung H. Sonnenberg und W. Hermann, 1978-1979. This exhibition later travelled to Ulm, Ulmer Museum.
Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Jaap Wagemaker. Bilder-Materialbilder und ausgewählte Biespiele exotischer Plastik aus der Sammlung Wagemaker, 1979.

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Professor Dr Albert Blankert is a renowned art historian in the field of the Dutch Golden Age. During his academic tenure in Utrecht, and as professor at Yale, Cambridge and in Leiden, he has contributed profoundly to our knowledge of Dutch Italianized and Caravaggist painters, Rembrandt and Dutch classicism in the 17th century. Foremost, prof dr Blankert is among the most authoritative Johannes Vermeer scholars and has written extensively on Vermeer's art and Dutch painting.