Jaap Wagemaker artwork • painting • for sale Peinture Noire
Jaap Wagemaker
Haarlem 1906-1972 Amsterdam
1906-1972
Peinture Noire
mixed media on canvas 93.7 x 59.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated on the reverse '56
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 8,500
Provenance: Galerie Gunar, Düsseldorf, Duitsland, 1958; veiling Christie's, Amsterdam, 7 dec. 1994, lotnr. 383; Borzo modern & contemporary art, Amsterdam; part. bezit Nederland.
Literature: Simon den Heijer, Marike van der Knaap, 'Aarde in verf: Jaap Wagemaker, schilder van het elementaire', Zwolle 1995, pag. 151, cat.nr. S.57-027 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Düsseldorf, Duitsland, Galerie Gunar, 'Jaap Wagemaker', 20 maart-18 juni 1958; Witten a/d Ruhr, Duitsland, Märkisches Museum Witten, 'Jaap Wagemaker, Amsterdam. Gemälde', 1 maart-22 maart 1959; Düsseldorf, Duitsland, Galerie Gunar, 'Neue Arbeiten von Jaap Wagemaker. Amsterdam', 10 april-16 mei 1959.
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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