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Ferdinand Erfmann artwork • painting • for sale The snapshot

Ferdinand Erfmann

The snapshot
oil on canvas 40.0 x 60.0 cm, signed l.l. with initials and dated 1955

This painting is for sale.

Price: € 19,500

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    #Ferdinand Erfmann #paintings#New Realism #Realism #beach view #reading #sunbathe #woman 
    Provenance: coll. Henk Romijn Meijer, Amsterdam, 1995; part. bezit Frankrijk.
    Literature: tent.cat. Amsterdam, Galerie Mokum, 'Vijftig jaar Nederlandse realistische kunst', 1970, pag. XIII, cat.nr. 24; tent.cat. Amsterdam, Galerie Mokum,'Ferdinand Erfmann Overzichtstentoonstelling', 1973, pag. 17, afb. in kleur pag. 9; tent.cat. Deurne, Gemeentemuseum De Wieger, 'Ze lachen erom of ze vinden het leelijk', 1988, cat.nr. 4.
    Exhibited: Amsterdam, Galerie Mokum, 'Vijftig jaar Nederlandse realistische kunst', 1970-1971; 'Ferdinand Erfmann Overzichtstentoonstelling', Amsterdam, Galerie Mokum, 1973/Apeldoorn, Van Reekumgalerij/ Breda, De Beyaard/ Sittard, Het Kritzraadhuis; Deurne, Gemeentemuseum De Wieger, 'Ze lachen erom of ze vinden het leelijk', 18 sept. 1988-13 nov. 1988; Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, 'Ferdinand Erfmann 1901-1968', 26 juni-10 sept. 1995.

    Ferdinand Erfmann was born into a family of actors in Rotterdam and besides drawing and paintingregularly performed on stage before the First World War. The two professions merged in his paintings of the worlds of the stage and the circus. His chief subject however was women: burly bathers, factory girls, female athletes and prostitutes – referred to by Erfmann as ‘mastodonten’ – immortalised in a flat, schematic figurative style that he characterised as ‘psychological synthetic realism’ and which shared some of the hallmarks of the New Objectivist movement that became popular in the Netherlands in the 1920s. In the 1930s, inspired by his travels in the Mediterranean, Erfmann mostly painted neoclassical landscapes and mythical figures.


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