Details
Wim Schuhmacher (Amsterdam 1894-1987 Amsterdam)
Liggende vrouw, Melitta
signed 'W. Schuhmacher' (lower left)
oil on canvas
33 x 55 cm. (13 x 21¾ in.)
Executed in 1939, Paris.
Provenance
With Kunstzaal Van Lier, Amsterdam.
A. Bloembergen, Bilthoven.
E. Bloembergen, Bitlhoven.
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 23 may 1989, lot 184 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. C-192).
Literature
K. Niehaus, Wim Schuhmacher, Amsterdam, 1939, p. 18-19.
Catalogue of exhibition, Amsterdam, Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Wim Schuhmacher, 1964.
Jan van Geest, Wim Schuhmacher, De meester van het grijs, Arnhem 1991, p. 110, illustrated, no. 185, p. 118, illustrated.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Kunstzaal Van Lier, Zomeropstelling, June July 1939, no. 6.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Wim Schuhmacher 1894-1954, 1954, no. 48.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Wim Schuhmacher, December 1974 January 1975, no. 55
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Wim Schuhmacher, 1 February 23 March 1975, no. 55.
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