Design for De Maaier (The Reaper)

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Bart van der Leck
Design for De Maaier (The Reaper)
numbered '39' (lower right), and numbered again 'III/39e' (upper right), with the numbered estate stamp '245' (on the reverse)
black chalk on paper
98 x 103 cm. (sheet); 87 x 92.5 cm. (image)
Executed circa 1946.

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Lot Essay

The final version of De Maaier (1946-1952), oil on canvas, 78 x 94 cm., was sold at these rooms on 10 June 1999 as lot 263, for Nlg. 340.000. A sketch from the same series was sold at these rooms on 11 December 1991, as lot 275.

The reaper makes part of one of Van der Leck's earliest well-known paintings De oogst (1904), now in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo. Van der Leck would elaborate the same theme several times in his career. See: Cees Hilhorst, 'Kwartet. Twee teruggevonden Van der Lecks', Jong Holland, 3 (1987)4, pp. 4-15, notably pp. 12-13.

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