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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1996
CATALOGUE
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MORNING SESSION AT 10.30 A.M. PRECISELY
(Lots 1 - 109)
POSTERS
A COLLECTION OF POSTERS BY CHARLES VERSCHUUREN SR.
PROPERTY OF CHARLES VERSCHUUREN JR.
Charles Verschuuren Sr. was born in Tilburg in 1891. Already at the age of sixteen he became a cartoonist for a local periodical. In 1914 he completed a five year course at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam and went to Paris to continue his studies. However, after the outbreak of World War I in the same year, he returned to Holland and started to make commercial posters and theatrical bills which were edited by the firm of Kotting in Amsterdam.
In 1923 he went to the United States where he worked during the next twelve years for the New York paper the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for which he designed the covers for the Sunday Magazine section.
In the 1930s he took up oil painting. These paintings of expressionist taste were exhibited widely and were well received.
When, in 1936, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle got folded because of the depression, Verschuuren started to work as a free-lance artist. From the early 1940s until his death in 1955 he worked as a film strip artist for the United States Air Force and the Army Signal Corps.
VERSCHUUREN, Charles (1891-1955)
FRANSKY
Details
VERSCHUUREN, Charles (1891-1955)
FRANSKY
lithograph in colours, c.1920, printed by Drukkerij Kotting, Amsterdam, tears to left hand edge, minor creases to right hand edge
110 x 80cm.
FRANSKY
lithograph in colours, c.1920, printed by Drukkerij Kotting, Amsterdam, tears to left hand edge, minor creases to right hand edge
110 x 80cm.