Jaap Wagemaker artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A hilly landscape, South France
Jaap Wagemaker
Haarlem 1906-1972 Amsterdam
1906-1972
A hilly landscape, South France
watercolour and gouache on paper 34.5 x 47.5 cm, signed l.c. and painted circa 1950
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Literature: Simon den Meijer, Marite van der Knaap, 'Jaap Wagemaker. Schilder van het elementaire', Zwolle 1995, nr. G00-008, pag. 195, (met afbeelding).
Exhibited: Amstelveen, Museum JAN, 'Wim Oepts en de schilders van het zonnige Zuiden', 30 sept. 2022-26 febr. 2023.
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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