Jaap Wagemaker artwork • painting • for sale Spaanse aarde (Spanish earth)
Jaap Wagemaker
Haarlem 1906-1972 Amsterdam
1906-1972
Spaanse aarde (Spanish earth)
mixed media on canvas 65.3 x 55.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '56
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 13,500
Provenance: Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, aldaar verworven door de familie van de vorige eigenaar.
Literature: Simon den Heijer, Marike van der Knaap, 'Aarde in verf: Jaap Wagemaker, schilder van het elementaire', Zwolle 1995, pag. 145, cat.nr. S.56-008 (met afb.).
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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