Inventory

Hein Burgers (1834-1899)

Ciel de Paris: View from the artist’s workshop in Paris

Signed

Oil on panel

25.5 x 18 cm

In 1867 Burgers settled more or less in Paris

The scene was probably painted at no.17 Rue de la Rochefoucauld (9e arr.) where he lived and worked for over 20 years

A comparable work was sold by Ubbens Art to the Fondation Custodia, Paris

Lucien B. Carayon (fl 1900-1920)

Sea views

Both signed

Oil on canvas laid down on cardboard

16 x 21.5 cm

In original period Art Nouveau frames

The artist exhibited around the turn of the century at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Frantz Charlet (1862-1928)

In love with a little smoker, Volendam

Signed

Oil on panel

50 x 40 cm

The Belgian painter Charlet was one of the founders and a member of the famous Art Group Les XX (1882)

In 1883 he travelled with Theo van Rijsselberghe to Algeria and Morocco in search for new light and different subject matter. He then in 1885 he visited in the company of a.o. the renowned American painter Whistler the villages of Volendam and Marken in Holland

Adolphe Cnops (1834-1911)

Lions resting

Signed and dated Gent ‘93

Oil on canvas

51 x 71 cm

Constant (1920-2005)

Edith Piaf

Signed

Watercolor on paper

44 x 63 cm

To be dated 1981

Provenance: Purchased directly by the family of the present owner with Adele van Rijckevorsel in 1982

Literature: J.C. Lambert, Serie Grands Peintres et Sculpteurs, Cercle d’ Art, 1992, p.134, no.103

Exhibited: Bielefeld, Kulturhistorischen Museum der Stadt Bielefeld, Constant Arbeiten auf Papier, 1985, no.26

Constant (1920-2005)

Two figures

Signed

Watercolor on paper

29 x 25 cm

Provenance: Purchased directly by the family of the present owner with Adele van Rijckevorsel in 1994

Henk de Court Onderwater (1877-1905)

A self-portrait in cape and top hat

Signed and inscribed Paris

Charcoal and pastel on paper

37 x 26 cm

(RESERVED)

Robert Crommelyck (1895-1968)

A Muse

Signed and dated ‘18

Watercolor and bodycolor on paper

19 x 11.5 cm

Jan Dasveldt (1770-1855)

Study of two dogs

Signed with initials

Pastel and chalk on paper

19 x 23 cm

Theodor van Dijk (b. 1948)

Embossed sjablone

Serie IV-number 3-hexgonal

Executed in 1984

Perspex

100 x 100 cm

Both the Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Museum Voorlinden Wassenaar own works from the same series

Marinus Dittlinger (1864-1942)

Snow Fun

Signed twice with initials and dated twice 1925

Oil on canvas

41 x 55 cm

The artist lived and worked foremost in The Hague. His dreamy landscapes and still lifes and his sometimes fairytale like cityscapes are in the collections of a.o. the Kunstmuseum, The Hague, the Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Museum in Breda

Willem Dooyewaard (1892-1980)

Ballet Dancers

Signed and dated 1966

Oil on canvas

50.5 x 60.5 cm

Peter Duivenvoorden (b. 1951)

Nine Geometrical forms

Pencil on paper

47 x 47 cm

To be dated 1991

Henri Louis Dupray (1841-1909)

A grenadiers (tambour) uniform jacket

Annotated on the reverse

Watercolor on paper

29 x 24 cm

To be dated in 1889

Simon Durand (1838-1896)

Down!

Signed with initials

Brown ink on paper

23 x 17.5 cm

English School, circa 1919-1920

Portrait of Matengi holding a club

Inscribed with title and W.Kimberley,Kuruman

Watercolor on paper

38.5 x 27.5 cm

In a simple wooden original frame

The sitter might be a member of the Tswana People residing in the North Cape, South Africa

Jan van Essen (1854-1936)

The Art Lover

Signed and dated 1891

Oil on panel

21.5 x 18 cm

European School, circa 1900

Satyr

Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolor on paper

33 x 25 cm

European School, first quarter of the 20th century

Skis

Oil on canvas laid down on carton

14.5 x 48 cm

Willem de Famars Testas (1834-1896)

Study of a Cactus

Oil on paper

31 x 40.5 cm

Provenance: Collection I.Q van Regteren Altena

The artist is mainly known for his watercolors depicting the Orient. He made a journey to Egypt from 1858-1860. This oil sketch may have been executed during this trip

(SOLD)

Franco-Dutch School, 1842

A poppy and a butterfly

Signed with indistinct initials and dated Pavot dec. 1842

Black ink and watercolor on paper

45 x 33 cm

John Fraser (1858-1927)

A dream garden

Signed with initials and dated Lynmouth 1899

Oil on canvas laid down on panel

21.5 x 12.5 cm

Alfonso Frasnedi (b.1934)

Abstract composition

Signed and with inscription on the reverse

Oil on canvas

60 x 76 cm

To be dated 1958

The artist is from Bologna, Italy.
A work from his hand hangs a.o. in the Museo d’ Arte Moderna di Bologna

Ngwe Gaing (1901-1967)

Padaung Girl ,Northern Thailand

Signed

Watercolor on paper

34 x 25 cm

The Padaung are a mountain tribe in Thailand nicknamed the Longnecks. Originally they are Burmese refugees

Ngwe Gaing is recognized as one of the greatest modern painters in Myanmar

The Singapore Art Museum possesses works by this artist

Attributed to Max Gierymski (1846-1874)

An umbrella pine - a study

Dated 3 okt 70

Oil on canvas

12 x 15.5 cm

He was a Munich-based painter and one of the greatest Polish representatives of the so-called Munich School His paintings combine subtlety of form and power of expression with a personal contemplating approach to nature and faithfulness in the reproduction of nature

Jean Leon Henri Gouweloos (1868-1943)

The umbrella

Signed

Oil on canvas laid down on board

48.5 x 38.5 cm

Jan W. Grinwis Plaat Stultjes (1898-1934)

A self-portrait in his studio

Pencil and black chalk on paper

46 x 38 cm

Jan W. Grinwis Plaat Stultjes (1898-1934)

The Death

Pencil, pen and ink, colored chalks and watercolor on paper

36.5 x 26.5 cm

To be dated 1924

A costume design for the Elcerlyc play

Willem Gruyter (1817-1880)

View of a Mediterranean bay

Signed twice, and dated 1852 3 februarij on the reverse

Pen and ink, watercolor on paper

7.5 x 13.5 cm

Anthonius Matthieu Guthschmidt (1887-1958)

Racecourse Duindigt, Wassenaar

Signed

Oil on canvas

110 x 225 cm

The painter, educated at the art Academies of Antwerp and the Hague became namely a graphic and advertising artist and designer of letter types. He founded Studio Guthschmidt which still exists

Rene Hanin (1871-1943)

An Algerian Woman

Signed

Oil on cardboard

75.5 x 46.5 cm

Probably to be dated in the 1920’s

Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig (1866-1915)

View of the Molenberg and the village of Rhenen

Signed

Oil on canvas

70.5 x 84.5 cm

To be dated 1907/8

Provenance: Collection Dudok de Wit; thence by descent

Exhibited: Singer Laren, Hart Nibbrig, 25 August-3 November 1996, in exhibition catalogue, p.30, illustration number 18

(SOLD)

Armand Heins (1856-1938)

Lions

Pen, pencil and black and brown ink on paper

Both signed and dated 1912, one inscribed Anvers

16.5 x 19 cm and 16.5 x 19.5 cm

Henk Helmantel (b.1945)

Peaches in a bowl on a table

Signed and dated 1984

Oil on panel

62 x 80 cm

Piet van der Hem (1885-1961)

Amazone in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Signed and inscribed with title

Black chalk and bodycolor on grayish paper

25.5 x 32.5 cm

To be dated 1909/10 when the artist stayed in Paris

Andre Hennebicq (1836-1904)

Maroc; Type-Juif (portrait of a Jewish man from Morocco)

Signed and annotated

Oil on panel

26.5 x 17.5 cm

In 1884 this Belgian artist travelled Morocco

Stanislaw Holecek (1900-1976)

Every cloud has a silver lining

Signed and signed again and inscribed on an old label on the reverse

Oil on cardboard

34 x 23 cm

Martin Hubrecht (1892-1965)

A cloudy landscape

Signed with monogram

Charcoal on paper

33 x 48 cm

Martin Hubrecht used to be a member of the so-called Groupe de Mai, painters from the Alsace

Many of his works are in the Musee d’art modern et contemporain, Strassbourg, France

In 2007 the Musee historique in Hageuenau, France, organized a retrospective of his works

Isaac Israels (1865-1934)

An Essayeuse (model) at Paquin, Paris

Signed

Pastel on paper

63 x 46 cm

To be dated 1907-1910

We like to thank Willemien de Vlieger-Moll for helping to catalogue this pastel

Italian School, first half 19th century

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Italy

Oil on canvas

56 x 72.5 cm

Nico Jungmann  (1872-1935)

Portrait of a young girl

Signed with monogram, and signed again and dated 1901, and inscribed on the reverse

Pastel on paper

42 x 32 cm

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (1839-1902)

Studies of hands and Arms (2)

Oil on canvas

26 x 17.5 cm and 20 x 22 cm

Hans Kanters (b. 1947)

The happy art merchant

Signed

Oil on panel, oval

34.5 x 24.5 cm

Provenance: Galerie Siau, Amsterdam, 1971 where purchased by the father of the present owner

Nicaise De Keyser (1813-1887)

The Poet

Signed

Pen and ink on paper

17.5 x 13.5 cm

Pyke Koch (1901-1991)

Voetballers II

Signed with initials

Tempera on paper laid down on board

23 x 30 cm

Provenance: Gift of Mr and Mrs. Theodore Koch to the Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota; sale Christie’s Amsterdam, 1990, lot 266; Drs Loek Brons BV, Amsterdam; where purchased by the present owner, the Netherlands

Exhibited: Utrecht, 1958; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 1995, p.231

Literature: Prof. Dr Carel Blotkamp, Pyke Koch, Utrecht, 1972, p.32 (illus.) and p.172 (illus. no 62); catalogue to the Rotterdam exhibition, 1995

Freddie Langeler (1899-1948)

Le Perroquet and Le Papillon

Both signed

Pencil, pen and ink and watercolor on paper

21 x 13 cm


She was a illustrator for more than 100 children’s books

Pieter van Loon (1801-1873)

Street view of Utrecht (Vismarkt?)

Signed and dated Utrecht 1863

Pen and brown ink on paper

14.5 x 23.5 cm

Jacobus van Looy (1855-1930)

A nude

Signed

Oil on panel

21 x 23.5 cm

To be dated 1890

Literature: Joyce van der Smit, Chris Will, Jacobus van Looy, catalogue to the exhibition in the Frans Hals museum, Haarlem, 19 December 1998-7 March 1999 and the Gemeente Museum Helmond from 21 March to 24 May 1999, number 68, page 153, Waanders Zwolle

This semi-abstract work of a nude is a about form and color and is very comparable in style with his famous Oranjefeest which hangs in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Adrien-Jean le Mayeur de Merpres (1880-1958)

Dhibouti soir; children on a beach

Signed and annotated

Charcoal on paper

21 x 27 cm

Painted in 1928

Literature: cf. Jop Ubbens, Cathinka Huizing, Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres: painter-traveller, Wijk en Aalburg, 1995, pp 53-56

Salvador Mege (1854-1939)

The Niagara Falls

Signed and dated 1887

Oil on canvas

29 x 56.5 cm

The artist originated from Bayonne, France, and made his debut at the Salon, Paris in 1879

In 1887, 1888 and 1889 he traveled both Canada and America where he painted for instance a portrait of sitting Bull in 1889. Next to the work here presented he also executed ice skating on the Schuylkill river, Philadelphia

Joseph Mendes da Costa (1863-1939)

King Davids Dance of Joy

Signed with monogram

Terracotta

H. 27.5 cm

Literature: Louk Tilanus, de kunst van J. Mendes da Costa, 2014, G 46, p.175 (as whereabouts unknown)

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915)

Low tide; A Bomschuit and fisherfolk on a beach, Scheveningen

Signed

Watercolor on paper

55 x 37 cm

This watercolor is included in the Archive of the Mesdag Documentatie Stichting under number 3030.15 (cf letter by Johan Poort dated 5-12-95)

Martin Monnickendam (1874-1943)

'Heeroom'

Signed, dated 1913, and annotated on the reverse

Oil on panel

20 x 19.5 cm

Provenance: a gift to the art historian Prof. Dr. Willem Vogelsang (1875-1954), Professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht from 1907-1945

Literature: R.J.C. van Helden, Martin Monnickendam, vol. I, p.262, no.38

Carel de Neree tot Babberich (1880-1909)

Rodeuse, bird women

Pencil and East Indian ink on paper

33.5 x 17.5 cm

To be dated 1903

Provenance: directly from the family of the artist

The artist renders here a kind of zoomorphic subject typical for the Symbolist period

Dirk Nijland (1881-1955)

Bird skeleton

Signed with monogram

Oil on canvas

40 x 51.5 cm

To be dated 1914

In an original period frame

Even within the oeuvre of maverick-artist Nijland these type of pictures are exceptional. He painted a few of these paintings and drawings because of the apocalyptical threat of WWI
Comparable works are in the collection of respectively Dordrechts Museum and the Drents Museum in Assen

Frans David Oerder (1867-1944)

Coconut rope weaver, South Africa

Signed, and indistinctly inscribed on the reverse

Oil on canvas

38 x 23.5 cm

Johan Thorn Prikker (1868-1932)

Peasant women working in the field

Signed and dated 1892

Pencil and watercolor on paper

41 x 44 cm

Exhibited: Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Johan Thorn Prikker Werke bis 1910, 19 September-28 November 1982, cat no. 9

Victor Prouve (1858-1943)

Pele-Mele of Centaurs five drawings and one lithograph

Black and brown ink on paper

30.5 x 51 cm

In an original decorated Art Deco (Nancy?) frame

Provenance: The archaeologist, collector and industrialist Saint-Just Pecquart (1881-1944); Sale Cherbourg, 24 September 2001; Laura Pecheur, Exposition Victor Prouve, Paris, 4 December 2001; Private Collection, the Netherlands, 2004-2022

These works are preliminary studies for 22 engravings in the book Les Centaurs by Andre Lichtenberger, 1924, Paris, Cres, Nancy

Prouve was an important trailblazer for the Nancy School of Fine Arts where he became director between 1919-1940

He also is known as a designer for the Daum brothers and Galle

Jaroslav Provaznik (1890-1925)

Old portico in historic Peking (Bejing)

Signed and dated Peking 1920

Watercolor on paper

19.5 x 22.5 cm

Ernest Quost (1844-1931)

Great Blue Herons

Signed with artist’s stamp on the reverse

Charcoal on blue paper

40 x 30 cm

Quost was essential a Parisian painter and pastelist and had his first exhibition at the Salon de Paris in 1866. He drew many sketches as he said "to store up in their spirit the most memories of nature as possible"

Maria Engelina van Regteren Altena (1868-1958)

The Window; petit Coin de Ferme with Nasturtium

Signed with initials, and signed again and inscribed with title on the stretcher

Oil on canvas

Van Regteren Altena was one of the so-called 'Amsterdamse Joffers'. She mainly produced (flower) still lives. She painted this work in Apeldoorn according to an inscription on the stretcher where she lived with her parents between 1897-1917

Coba Ritsema (1876-1961)

Still live with Japanese 'scheerbekken'

Signed

Pastel on paper

57 x 72.5 cm

Provenance: Kunsthandel Francois Buffa &Fils, Amsterdam; Mrs Hartjens, Stadionweg 60, Amsterdam

Exhibited: The Hague, Haags Gemeente Museum, stillevens en bloemen van 30 schilders van heden, mei-juni 1940, no.72

Coba Ritsema was one of the eight members of the so called 'Amsterdamse Joffers'

Charles Rochussen (1814-1894)

Killing the lion

Signed with monogram and dated ’58

Oil on panel

23.5 x 34 cm

Cornelis Schermer (1824-1915)

A Horse Market, Maliebaan, The Hague

Stamped Atelier C. Schermer

Oil on paper laid down on panel

19.5 x 40.5 cm

Compare this oil sketch to the painting by Schermer in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam executed in 1858

Franz Wilhelm Schiertz (1813-1887)

Ruin of the Monastery of Selje, Norway (?)

Signed, oil on paper

24.5 x 31.5 cm

Schiertz was a pupil of J.C. Dahl (1788-1857)

(SOLD)

Jan Sluijters (1881-1967)

Portrait Mrs. E. Kuyper-Sluijters

Signed with initials, and indistinctly inscribed in pencil

Pencil, black chalk, pen and ink and watercolor on paper

31.5 x 22.5 cm

Provenance: E.J. van Wisselingh&Co., Amsterdam, inv.no. A 9466

Cornelis Springer (1817-1891)

View of Hindeloopen in summer

Signed and dated 1875, and signed again, authenticated, titled and dated again by the artist on a label on the reverse

Oil on panel

50 x 40 cm

Literature: W.Laanstra, C.Springer, Utrecht, 1984, no75-8 (illustrated) Arnold Ligthart, Door het oog van Cornelis Springer, 2015-2016, pp.143-144 (illustration 186 as a sublime panel)

(RESERVED)

Jacobus Storm (1871-1911)

An ear

Signed and dated 1889

Pencil on paper

65 x 50 cm

This is probably an academic drawing but with a uncommon subject matter

Petrus Henricus Theodorus Tetar van Elven (1828-1908)

The Carpet mender

Signed

Oil on panel

23.5 x 18 cm

The artist travelled to Tunisia in 1866

Petrus Henricus Theodorus Tetar van Elven (1828-1908)

A view of probably Cabo de Espichel, Portugal, with the Sanctuary of Our Lady on top of the hill

Signed and inscribed

Watercolor on paper

27 x 46.5 cm

Cabo de Espichel is situated on the Western coast of Sesimbra in the district Setubal, about 40 miles from Lisbon

Friedrich Thöming (1802-1873)

A view at Villa Mazziotti from a grotto near Posilippo

Signed, oil on paper

14 x 10.5 cm

Henriette Vaillant (1875-1949)

Portrait of a man

Signed with intials

Pastel on paper

47 x 45 cm

The artist was a draftsman and a sculptor

(SOLD)

Pierre de Vaucleroy (1892-1980)

Femme de Sud-Marocain

Signed and inscribed with title

Pencil on paper

22.5 x 16 cm

To be dated between 1931-33 when the artist travelled Morocco

Robert Verly (1901-1963)

Mother and child, D.R. Congo

Signed and dated 1958

Oil on canvas laid down on board

58.5 x 47.5 cm

In an original period African frame
 
Robert Verly was a Belgian administrator and painter in Congo in the 1950’s

He set up ateliers to preserve and pass on the craftmanship of the last surviving Congolese sculptors.
 Verly wanted to protect the sculptors from external (Western, commercial) influences and stimulate the continued development of the indigenous art styles

His paintings are seldom appear on the market and are therefore very rare

Floris Verster (1861-1927)

A ginger jar with Doronicum

Signed and dated ‘10

Oil on panel

27 x 22 cm

Provenance: H.Bruckmann-Kroller, the Hague; Kunsthandel Nieuwenhuyzen Segaar, the Hague; Dr Johan Polak, Amsterdam; his sale Christie’s Amsterdam, 10-12-1992, lot 190 where purchased by the present owner

Literature: Scherjon, 1928, 188; Vogelaar, 2003, no.188, p.128 (illus.)

Florence Weinstein (1895-1989)

Abstract Composition

Signed on the reverse, and signed again on the stretcher

Oil on canvas

55 x 83.5 cm

Exhibited: Camino Gallery, New York, between 1959-1963
The Camino gallery was part of the so-called 10th street galleries. The gallery was artist run and operated in East Village on the East side of Manhattan. Besides Florence Weinstein also Alice Neel and Eliane Kooning were members of the gallery

Antoon van Welie (1866-1956)

Remembrance (Herinnering)

Signed and dated ft.1902, and inscribed with title

Pastel on paper

45 x 32.5 cm

Janus de Winter (1882-1951)

Aurora

Signed with initials

Pastel on paper

31.5 x 48 cm

To be dated circa 1917-20

Literature: Ine Gevers, Janus de Winter, 1985, cf.p. 115, illus.85

Hendrik Jan Wolter (1873-1952)

Rainy day at the Coast of Devonshire, England

Signed, signed again and inscribed with title on the reverse

Pastel on paper

57 x 83 cm

Exhibited: Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, Retrospectieve Expositie Hendrik Jan Wolter 1873-1973, from 9 May to 27 May 1973, cat.no. 9

Carl Wuttke (1849-1927)

The Ancient Greek Theatre, Taormina, Sicily

Signed

Oil on panel

15 x 22 cm

Adrianus van Zeegen (1881-1966)

Fantasy

Signed

Oil on canvas

40 x 109 cm

Provenance: private collection, the Netherlands

Adrianus van Zeegen (1881-1966)

A tree

Signed and dated 1915

Oil on canvas

45.5 x 32.5 cm

Provenance: J.H. de Bois, Haarlem, no.41 (probably exhibition from 16 April-31 May 1917)

Agatha Zethraeus (1872-1966)

Carriages at the Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam

Signed

Oil on board

28 x 35 cm

Alexis Zvetkoff (fl.1950’s)

The winner takes it all

Signed and dated 1951

Oil on canvas

60 x 70 cm

Exhibited: Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Vier Eeuwen Roken in de Kunst, 13 December 2003-14 March 2004. The artist showed his pseudo-Romantic but photo realistic works between 1956-1963 several times in Galleries in respectively Gand, Brussels and Liege