Inventory - Ubbens Art Advisory

Willem de Famars Testas (1834-1896)

View of Palestina

Signed, and signed again with intials and inscribed with title on the reverse

Watercolour on paper

17.5 x 24 cm

This watercolour is probably executed in 1868 during his journey to Egypt, Syria and Palestina invited by the French artist and renowed Orientalist Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904). De Famars Testas travelled in the company of a.o. the art dealer Albert Goupil (1840-1884), and the French painters Leon Bonnat (1833-1922), Jean-Richard Goubie (1842-1899) and Paul-Marie Lenoir (d.1881). The trip lasted from January to July 1868. (cf Maarten J.Raven, De Schilderskaravaan 1868, Leyden, 1992)

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

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

Vilmos Huszar (1884-1960)

Bridgers

Signed

Oil on canvas

71 x 81 cm

To be dated 1932-33

On loan to Singer Laren from June 2017 until October 2024

Literature: Sjarel Ex and Els Hoek, Vilmos Huszar schilder en ontwerper 1884-1960; de grote onbekende van de Stijl, Utrecht, 1985, p.177, illus. No. 227

Exhibited: Singer Laren, Mooiste Modernisten, 10 October 2017- 7 January 2018; Dortmund, Museum Ostwall, Neiderlandische Moderne aus der Sammlung Singer Laren, 11 May-28 August 2019; Singer Laren, het gevoel van Singer Laren, 9 March-8 May 2022

Please compare to his Baccarat players from 1928 which is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid

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"

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