De boer uit Batoeboelan Kerenang (The Farmer from Batoeboelan Kerenang)
Details
WILLEM GERARD HOFKER (1902-1981)
De boer uit Batoeboelan Kerenang (The Farmer from Batoeboelan Kerenang)
signed 'W.G. Hofker' (lower left); dated and inscribed 'BATOE BOELAN/1939/BALI' (upper right)
conté crayon on paper
53 x 40 cm. (20 7⁄8 x 15 3⁄4 in.)
Executed in 1939
De boer uit Batoeboelan Kerenang (The Farmer from Batoeboelan Kerenang)
signed 'W.G. Hofker' (lower left); dated and inscribed 'BATOE BOELAN/1939/BALI' (upper right)
conté crayon on paper
53 x 40 cm. (20 7⁄8 x 15 3⁄4 in.)
Executed in 1939
Provenance
Sotheby's Singapore, 27 September 1997, lot 44
Private collection, Asia (acquired at the above sale by the previous owner)
Christie's Hong Kong, 28 May 2006, lot 59
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Private collection, Asia (acquired at the above sale by the previous owner)
Christie's Hong Kong, 28 May 2006, lot 59
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
B. Carpenter, P. Hammann & R. Hössen, Willem Hofker: Painter of Bali, Pictures Publishers, Aalburg, 1993 (illustrated, p. 54).
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