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Jan van Loenen Martinet met Pauline Berdenis van Berlekom shortly after World War II through a mutual friend. They fell in love and married in 1950. They shared a passion for art and Jan had already been a partner in his own gallery Martinet & Michels since 1949. The gallery focused on "living" artists, such as Corneille, Carel Visser and Gerrit Benner and played an important role in developing the Dutch Post-War art scene. The gallery could not sustain itself financially, however, in a decade when Europe was still in the reconstruction phase after the war. In 1954 the director of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Willem Sandberg, asked Jan to become the head of the print department, and he decided to close his gallery. In the museum Jan became acquainted with artists such as Christo, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Shinkichi Tajiri, who all became close friends of Jan and Pauline. PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAN AND PAULINE VAN LOENEN MARTINET - BERDENIS VAN BERLEKOM

Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009)

Untitled (From the series Drippings)

Details

Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009)
Untitled (From the series Drippings)
bronze with a gold/brown patina
41 x 43.5 x 27 cm.
Executed circa 1957-1961

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the present owners.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Untitled (From the series Drippings)

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