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PIET de ZWART: the etcher Etching was the only graphical discipline Piet de Zwart practised. As a member of the Dutch Etsclub he was rather productive between 1885-1887. The club was preoccupied with the promotion of the peintre-graveur; the autonomous etching amongst young artist, but de Zwart took on etching to reproduce his own paintings and foremost his landscapes. In 1896 art dealer Van Wisselingh bought these early plates from de Zwart, for later publication. At the same time de Zwart started to etch again after his paintings of the landscape he found where he lived and although de Zwart was restlessly moving from one place to the other the subjects he choose show less variation than one could expect. De Zwart produced 130 plates, of which 40 are comprised in the following 4 lots (lots 420 -423).

Willem de Zwart (1862 - 1931)

a small collection of etchings

Details

Willem de Zwart (1862 - 1931)
a small collection of etchings
ten etchings, on laid Van Gelder, signed in pen and ink and each numbered differently, with full margins, from the edition of 100 published by Van Wisselingh & Co, circa 1907-11, few small defects, generally in very good condition
S. 450 x 323 mm.; two sheets larger (10)

Literature

Richard Bionda, Willem de Zwart, Haarlem, 1984, Catalogus van de etsen, p.93-110

Special notice

The buyer's premium is 28.125% of the hammer price up to value of NLG 200,000 plus 19.2% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000

Lot Essay

See illustration of B.64

The present lot consists of Bionda numbers: 64, 23, 29, 39, 21 19, 74 56, 65, 16

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