Jaap Wagemaker artwork • painting • previously for sale Spring time
Jaap Wagemaker
Haarlem 1906-1972 Amsterdam
1906-1972
Spring time
oil on canvas 59.5 x 69.3 cm, signed l.r. and painted in 1936
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: part.coll. Rotterdam.
Literature: Simon den Heijer en Marieke van der Knaap, 'Jaap Wagemaker schilder van het elementaire', Zwolle 1995, pag. 135, cat.nr. SO-36-001 (met afb.), afb. in kleur pag. 29.
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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