Inventory – Ubbens Art Advisory

Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel (1828-1903)

Early morning in the Kamper polder

Signed

Oil on canvas

37 x 58.5 cm

To be dated circa 1889

Provenance: Amsterdam, sale Mak van Waay, September 1950, lot 208; Collection B. de Geus van den Heuvel, Nieuwersluis; his sale Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 26 and 27 April 1976, lot 267; Kunsthandel Pieter A Scheen, The Hague where purchased by the present owner

Exhibited: Schiedam, Gemeente Museum, 1952/53, cat. no.23; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Romantiek tot Amsterdamse School, July-September 1958, cat.no.C.27

Tjitske Geertruida Maria van Hettinga Tromp (1872-1962)

A still life with earthenware objects by Joseph Mendes da Costa

Signed with monogram and dated 1947

Oil on canvas

32 x 28 cm

Provenance: Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, The Hague; Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Haarlem; Collection Meentwijck, Bussum/Grou

The painter van Hettinga Tromp and the sculptor Joseph Mendes da Costa (1863-1939) were friends. In the monography on Mendes da Costa (2015) by Louk Tilanus the objects on the painting are the numbers KN 24 (Flesvaasje met apenkoppen), KN 34b (bekertje met uil) and D7c (de zieke aap)

Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1869)

Cleopatra’s Obelisk, Alexandria, Egypt

Signed, and inscribed Alexandrien/Nadel der Cleopatra

Pencil and watercolour op paper

25 x 36 cm

This is probably the Obelisk which has been re-erected in 1881 in the Central Parc, NYC close to the Met. In 1869 the vice-roi of Egypt Mr Ismail Pasha, just after the opening of the Suez canal, gave this Needle of Cleopatra to the Americans hoping to stimulate the trade between the two countries. In 1879 the gift was confirmed

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Karel de Neree tot Babberich (1880-1909)

Rococo Vases

Inscribed in handwriting of the artist verso “Rokoko Vasen/nicht vervollstandigst fur/Henkel u.Stollwercks Preisausschreiben no 105/Worte hinzu zu fugen/Larec Eeren? Juni 1904

Pen and pencil in black ink on paper

33.5 x 25 cm

Provenance: Amsterdam, Mak, 21 March 1933 (studio sale de Neree); Picadilly Gallery London; Collectie Meentwijck

Exhibited: London, Picadilly gallery, 1966, cat.no.35; Munchen,1970; Laren 1974-1975, and The Hague, Couperus Museum, 2014-2015

An essay on the drawing by Sander Bink is available

I like to thank Sander Bink in helping to catalogue this entry

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David Oyens (1842-1902)

Studio Corner (Atelier hoekje)

Signed

Oil on panel

31 x 41.5 cm

To be dated circa 1885

Provenance: Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, circa 1970; Collection Anton Vlaskop (1970’s); Collection Victor Bourgeais (1970-80); Galerij Pantheon, Gand, (1980); private collection

Exhibited: The Hague, Kunstmuseum, de gebroeders Oyens, een Nederlandse schilders tweeling in Brussel, 12 April-13 Juli 2008; Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Belgium, Charliermuseum, Les jumeaux Oyens, 10 MArch-30 May 2010

Aldo Pagliacci (1913-1991)

An Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church burial procession (probably the Simien Mountains region of North Ethiopia)

Oil on panel

55.5 x 42 cm

Exhibited: Georgetown, U.S.A., Obelisk Gallery, February 1958

The artist took part in the 1929/30 Venice Biennale when he was only 17 of age

In 1936 he left for Eritrea

Pagliacci is a real so-called traveller-painter

He lived and worked in a.o. Ethiopia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Holland

In february 1958 he exhibited about 18 works in the famous Oblisk Gallery in Georgetown

Some of these showcased an Ethiopean subject matter

The Gallery announcement of that time reads: “Aldo Pagliacci’s exquisite little paintings are a continuing delight, with their glowing colors, precise details and aura of surrealism”

Attributed to August Riedel (1799-1883)

Portrait of the Danish sculptor Albert (Bertel) Thorvaldsen

Signed with initials and signed by Thorvaldsen

Pen and ink and watercolor on paper

22.5 x 17 cm

Provenance: F.J. Huss; thence inherited by Waldemar Beer

To be dated circa 1833

Thorvaldsen is busy working on the buste of the French Romantic painter Horace Vernet

Thorvaldsen and Vernet met in Rome and became close friends

This watercolor is executed mirror wise as against the large oil by Riedel of more or less the same subject which is kept in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. So it might be the case that the watercolor is after an etching or engraving?

According to Dr Margrethe Floryan, curator of the Thorvalsdsen Museum: "To judge upon the signature is exteremley difficult, not having seen the original version, but indeed it seems likely that the signature on this watercolor is Thorvaldsen’s. It also may be right that August Riedel did the watercolor"

Johan Thorn Prikker (1868-1932)

Paysage pres de Dahlem

Signed and annotated aan mevrouw J. Crommelin

Colored chalks on paper

50 x 60 cm

To be dated 1900-1904

Julia Elisabeth Crommelin-Tutein Nolthenius (1853-1939) was a friend of the artist. A portrait of her by Thorn Prikker is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Provenance: Collection Meentwijck

Exhibited: Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague; Kunsthandel Ivo Bouman The Hague (as; Bomen); Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Johan Thorn Prikker Werke bis 1910, 19 september-28 november 1982, p.52, illustration 57 (as Wiese mit Baumen) and p.94; Singer Laren, Leven in een verzameling, de collectie Meentwijck, 14 maart-12 Juni 2000

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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