Otto van Rees artwork • painting • previously for sale Adya working on red embroidery
Otto van Rees
Freiburg (Duitsland) 1884-1957 Utrecht
1884-1957
Adya working on red embroidery
oil on canvas 65.2 x 54.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1910
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: part. coll. Parijs; Kunsthandel W. Röling, Amsterdam; veiling Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 8 juni 2004, lotnr. 187; part. coll. Nederland.
Literature: Egbert en Sjoerd van Faassen e.a., 'Otto van Rees', Zwolle/De Bilt 2005, pag. 24, afb. 31 (in kleur), pag. 301, cat.nr. 64; Irène Lesparre, 'Otto & Adya van Rees. Pioniers binnen de avant-garde', Zwolle 2024, pag. 29, afb. 17 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Laren, Singer Museum, 'Otto van Rees (1884-1957). Verkenner van het modernisme', 31 jan.-27 april 2003.
In the early 20th century, Otto van Rees mixed in international modernist circles (the Fauves, Cubists and Dadaists) and collaborated with avant-garde artists like Jan Toorop, Kees van Dongen and Jean Arp. In 1904, when he was twenty, he left for Paris and rented a space in the notorious studio building Bateau-Lavoir, where he met Braque and Picasso. Around 1910 the influence of French Cubism is evident in the abstract stylisation of his paintings and experimental collages. After 1920 Van Rees focused on painting portraits and French landscapes in a more figurative and dreamlike style.
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