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Bart van der Leck artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Composition (probably a draft for a rug)

Leck B.A. van der | 'Bart' Anthony van der Leck, Composition (probably a draft for a rug), pencil and watercolour on paper 16.0 x 11.5 cm

Bart van der Leck

Composition (probably a draft for a rug)
pencil and watercolour on paper 16.0 x 11.5 cm

This work on paper was previously for sale.

Provenance: coll. Jan van Campen, Blaricum, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van de vorige eigenaar.

Bart van der Leck was one of the first geometric-abstract painters of the Netherlands and from 1917 to 1918, was part of De Stijl movement, which also included Piet Mondriaan and Theo van Doesburg. His work, as well as Mondriaan’s, illustrates his search for the essence of the shapes in the world around us, what he called ‘doorbeelding’. Subjects such as still lifes, animals and flowers were reduced by Van der Leck to geometric planes and fragments of contour lines, set separated from each another against a white background. His prerequisite was, however, that the subject had to remain recognisable. From the 1920s, Van der Leck was also engaged in applied art, and he created designs for fabrics, carpets, tiles, plates and letters.


Bart van der Leck | Compositie (design for a carpet), gouache on paper, 13.5 x 16.5 cm, executed early 1930's

Bart van der Leck

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Compositie (design for a carpet)

Bart van der Leck | Lillies, graphite and watercolor on paper, 50.0 x 26.0 cm, signed on the reverse and dated on the reverse 1922

Bart van der Leck

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Lillies


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