Kees Maks artwork • painting • for sale Dressage in the circus
Kees Maks
Amsterdam 1876-1967
1876-1967
Dressage in the circus
oil on board 40.1 x 49.9 cm, signed l.l.
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 9,200
Provenance: coll. L. & L. Honsdrecht, Amsterdam; veiling Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 20 maart 1978, lotnr. 83; coll. L. & L. Honsdrecht, Amsterdam; veiling Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 22 juni 1998, lotnr. 520.
Literature: L. Honsdrecht, 'De L. & L. Honsdrecht-collectie: een particuliere verzameling Nederlandse figuratieve schilderkunst na 1850', Amsterdam 1977, pag. 10, cat.nr. 99.
Maks himself enjoyed horseback riding and regularly visited the Hollandsche Manege on Vondelstraat in Amsterdam. He preferred to paint his riders at Carré, originally founded as a circus theater by Oskar Carré.
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