Jaap Nanninga artwork • watercolour • drawing • for sale Composition on a blue background
Jaap Nanninga
Winschoten 1904-1962 Den Haag
1904-1962
Composition on a blue background
gouache and chalk on paper 48.0 x 61.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '59
This work on paper is for sale.
Price: € 11,500
Provenance: coll. jkvr. P.J.M.E. Schuurbeque Boeye, Doorn, 1966; part. coll. Zeist, 1987.
Literature: tent.cat. 'Nanninga', Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen/Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 1962, cat.nr. 44, (met afb.); tent.cat. Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, 'Jaap Nanninga', 1966, cat.nr. 35; Erik Slagter, 'Nanninga: schilder, painter, peintre', Amsterdam 1987, pag. 82, cat.nr. 339.
Exhibited: 'Nanninga', Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 14 dec. 1962-27 jan. 1963/Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 12 febr.-24 maart 1963; Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, 'Jaap Nanninga', 12 febr.-26 maart 1966; 'Nanninga: schilder, painter, peintre', Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 14 maart-3 mei 1987/Venlo, Museum Bommel-Van Dam, 8 mei-28 juni 1987/Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 11 juli-30 aug. 1987.
Jaap Nanninga belongs to that group of Hague painters who only made the step from figuration to abstraction after the Second World War. Among the influences on his development was the abstract work of Geer van Velde, whom he met in the South of France in 1946. Nanninga’s compositions consist of forms which he intuitively sets down onto canvas.
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