Leo Gestel (DUTCH, 1881-1941)
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Leo Gestel (DUTCH, 1881-1941)

Nettendragers

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Leo Gestel (DUTCH, 1881-1941)
Nettendragers
signed, dated and inscribed 'Leo Gestel 1924/Positano' (lower right), and signed twice again, dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
77 x 102 cm.
Painted circa 1924.
Provenance
Piet Boendermaker, Bergen, no. 405.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

In 1924 Gestel travelled to Italy and visited Positano, where he made many sketches, drawings and paintings. There is an other watercolour very similar in composition to Nettendragers, also from 1924, sold in these rooms on 25 January 2005, lot 320.

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