Het huis met de zeven hoofden

Details

Wim Schuhmacher (1894-1986)
Het huis met de zeven hoofden
signed 'W. Schuhmacher.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm.
Painted in 1951.

Provenance

Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij, The Hague.
The Royal Dutch Shell Group, London.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 July 1977, lot 211.
Kunsthandel G.J. Scherpel, Bussum.
O.A.C. Verpaalen, Breda.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 29-30 September 1986, lot 239.
M. Hasenbos, Nijmegen.
Kunsthandel Loek Brons, Amsterdam, 1990.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992.

Literature

Jan van Geest, Wim Schuhmacher: de Meester van het Grijs, Arnhem, 1991, no. 227, p. 235 (illustrated, dated 1951).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present lot shows 'Het Huis met de Hoofden' (The House with the Heads) at the Keizersgracht 123 in Amsterdam. It was designed by Hendrick de Keyser (1565-1621) and built in 1622.
The painting was commissioned by the Royal Shell Company. Schuhmacher did not just copy the house. The artist transformed the colours in soft and delicate tones and left all the cars, vehicles and human figures out of the composition, trying to bring the house back to its original 17th-century state.

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