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Joost Baljeu (1925-1991)
Synthetische Constructie F25 (Synthetic Construction F25)
polychrome painted steel
43.5 x 103 x 49.5cm.
Executed in 1990
Provenance
Estate of the Artist.
Literature
J. Fritz-Jobse, Hommage aan Joost Baljeu. Werken periode 1955-1990, Utrecht 1995 (illustrated in colour on the cover).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Joost Baljeu, 1991 (illustrated in colour, p. 37).
The Hague, Galerie De Rijk, Joost Baljeu, 2006 (illustrated in colour, p. 22).
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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‘But, one might ask oneself, will […] geometric art be capable of becoming a language of forms of a human community? For those who continue to see it as abstract, it will not. But it will for those who see in it an investigation of being, of the structure of nature, of which man is after all part and with which he is one. To them it is the image of the individual that acknowledges and constantly redefines its relationship with generality. The image no longer constricted by the limits of the frame, but extending over all design, from the largest building to the smallest utensil. And in this language of forms, it is not mathematics that will be recognized, but emotion’ – Joost Baljeu

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