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Jan Sluijters artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Dancer

Sluijters J.C.B.  | Johannes Carolus Bernardus 'Jan' Sluijters, Dancer, watercolour on paper 35.0 x 41.8 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1920

Jan Sluijters

Dancer
watercolour on paper 35.0 x 41.8 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1920

This work on paper was previously for sale.

Provenance: part.coll. Amsterdam, door vererving in bezit gekomen van de vorige eigenaar.

Gertrud Leistikow (1885-1948) dancer of German descent, introduced modern or 'German' dance in the Netherlands. She detested classical ballet and invented her own choreographies without using existing ballet techniques. Improvisation was leading in this, with the body following the soul. She was always alone on stage, in self-designed and made costumes. According to contemporaries, her strength lay not in her virtuoso technique, but in the dramatic intensity of her performances. After her marriage to a Dutch flower grower in 1912, she founded several dance schools and found her way in the Amsterdam art world, where she became acquainted with the Dutch avant-garde. Leistikow drinks with poets – Bertolt Brecht even writes a poem for her – and she poses for Jan Sluijters. Else Berg draws her, Mommie Schwarz designs posters for her and she performs with masks that Hildo Krop designs for her. She performs in Carré, the Concertgebouw, but most preferably in the Stadsschouwburg. This watercolor may be a preliminary study for the oil painting from the Narndinc Collection in the Singer Museum Laren.


Jan Sluijters | A baby, charcoal and watercolour on paper, 37.0 x 27.2 cm, signed l.r.

Jan Sluijters

watercolour • drawing • for sale

A baby

Jan Sluijters | A woman in a red blouse, oil on canvas, 66.0 x 46.0 cm, signed l.l. and on the canvas on the reverse and executed ca. 1925

Jan Sluijters

painting • for sale

A woman in a red blouse

Jan Sluijters | Baby, sucking on a thumb, pencil, coloured pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper, 34.3 x 46.3 cm, signed l.c.

Jan Sluijters

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Baby, sucking on a thumb

Jan Sluijters | Female nude, charcoal on paper, 25.0 x 50.0 cm, signed l.r. with initials and executed ca. 1943

Jan Sluijters

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Female nude

Jan Sluijters | Landscape near Amsterdam, oil on canvas, 42.9 x 52.2 cm, signed u.l. with monogram and dated '09 (indistinct)

Jan Sluijters

painting • for sale

Landscape near Amsterdam

Jan Sluijters | Portrait of a baby, charcoal and chalk on paper, 29.0 x 25.3 cm, signed u.l.

Jan Sluijters

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Portrait of a baby

Jan Sluijters | Sleeping baby, pencil and watercolour on paper, 46.5 x 58.5 cm, signed u.l.

Jan Sluijters

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Sleeping baby

Jan Sluijters | Sleeping baby, black chalk and watercolour on paper, 43.3 x 55.1 cm, signed l.r.

Jan Sluijters

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Sleeping baby

Jan Sluijters | St. Nicholas Eve, 1946 with chewing tobacco and Bols in the shoes, watercolour on paper, 47.5 x 32.2 cm, signed l.l. and executed 1946

Jan Sluijters

watercolour • drawing • for sale

St. Nicholas Eve, 1946 with chewing tobacco and Bols in the shoes

Jan Sluijters | View of Amsterdam, oil on canvas, 46.3 x 56.5 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1919

Jan Sluijters

painting • for sale

View of Amsterdam


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