Jaap Wagemaker artwork • painting • previously for sale Dubrovnik
Jaap Wagemaker
Haarlem 1906-1972 Amsterdam
1906-1972
Dubrovnik
mixed media on panel 61.0 x 51.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '64
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: part. bezit Duitsland.
Literature: S. den Heijer, M. van der Knaap, 'Jaap Wagemaker: Schilder van het elementaire', Zwolle 1995, pag. 175, cat.nr. S64-011 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Galerie Magdalene Sothmann, 'Jaap Wagemaker, Schilderijen en gouaches', 3 okt.-24 okt. 1964; Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 'Wagemaker', 6 febr.-31 mrt. 1965, cat.nr. 28; Bochum, Städtische Kunstgalerie, 'Jaap Wagemaker-Bilder', 16 april-29 mei 1966; Den Haag, Ministerie van C.R.M., 12 dec. 1966; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Jaap Wagemaker. Schilderijen, Assemblages en Plastieken', 11 mei-18 juni 1967, cat.nr. 33 (met afb.); Groningen, 4 Hoog Groningen, 'Groepstentoonstelling', 10 febr.-24 febr. 1968.
Jaap Wagemaker is mainly known as a material painter and as such belongs to a small group of artists that includes Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Burri and Antoni Tàpies, who represented the movement internationally from the late 50s on. In the period prior to this, beginning in 1946, Wagemaker, influenced by Paul Klee’s work, began experimenting with a new, highly personal signature of imaginative symbols and lines which are obviously done in quite arbitrary fashion.
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