Jaap Wagemaker artwork • painting • previously for sale Les Clous
Jaap Wagemaker
Haarlem 1906-1972 Amsterdam
1906-1972
Les Clous
mixed media on board 22.2 x 17.2 cm, signed l.r. and reverse painted '60
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: Simon den Heijer, Marike van der Knaap, 'Jaap Wagemaker: Schilder van het elementaire', Zwolle 1995, pag. 162, cat.nr. S.60-026 (met afb.). J.W. nr. 213.
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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