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Lot Essay
Wim Schuhmacher was close friends to the uncle of the current owner, the poet Albert Helman. During the last years of the war Helman got into hiding in a space on the property of the Odinot family in Landsmeer. On that same property his friend Wim Schuhmacher also had his studio. Helman asked his brother, the father of the current owner, to acquire a work from Schuhmacher. It has been in the family ever since. Jan van Geest only saw the picture after publishing his oeuvre catalogue on the artist's work.
The present lot was painted to serve as the background in Schuhmacher's famous Double Nude in a Landscape, painted in 1937 (now in the Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek). As a result of working with transparent paper as a medium, the pittoresque Corsican in the background is a 1:1 though mirored reproduction of the present lot.
Jan van Geest mentions six other oil versions of Corte in his monography, (Van Geest no's 93, 115, 116, 132, 133 and 134).
Compare with: Jan van Geest, Wim Schuhmacher. De Meester van het Grijs, Arnhem 1991, p. 135 (Double Nude in a Landscape)
The present lot was painted to serve as the background in Schuhmacher's famous Double Nude in a Landscape, painted in 1937 (now in the Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek). As a result of working with transparent paper as a medium, the pittoresque Corsican in the background is a 1:1 though mirored reproduction of the present lot.
Jan van Geest mentions six other oil versions of Corte in his monography, (Van Geest no's 93, 115, 116, 132, 133 and 134).
Compare with: Jan van Geest, Wim Schuhmacher. De Meester van het Grijs, Arnhem 1991, p. 135 (Double Nude in a Landscape)