Jaap Wagemaker artwork • painting • previously for sale Forme Détachée
Jaap Wagemaker
Haarlem 1906-1972 Amsterdam
1906-1972
Forme Détachée
mixed media on canvas 94.3 x 110.4 cm, signed l.l. and dated '56
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. dr. De Jong, Rotterdam; part. bezit Rotterdam.
Literature: tent.cat. Venlo, Cultureel Centrum Venlo, 'Jaap Wagemaker. Schilderijen - Gouaches', 1970, cat.nr. 11; Didi Wagemaker-van der Meer, A.M. Hammacher e.a. 'Jaap Wagemaker', Vlaardingen 1975, pag. 70, afb. 52 (in kleur) en pag. 129, cat.nr. 52; Simon den Heijer, Marike van der Knaap, ‘Jaap Wagemaker. Schilder van het elementaire’, Zwolle 1995, pag. 145, cat.nr. S.56-014 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Venlo, Cultureel Centrum Venlo, 'Jaap Wagemaker. Schilderijen - Gouaches', 14 febr.-14 maart 1970.
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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