Neger in harnas - Negro in armour

It is not surprising that a colourist like Jan Sluijters gladly used colourful and coloured people as models for his paintings. During his career, he often invited coloured men and women to pose for him in his studio. Sometimes, he let two different skin colours contrast each other or, as in Neger in harnas, a dark skin colour and a bright, shiny metal. The contrast between dark and light was Sluijters' main pictoral challenge in the present lot.

To be included in the catalogue raisonné on the artist's work, currently being prepared by the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in the Hague.