Portrait of the African fighter Adolf Boutar (recto); three waspitten walking down a street (verso)

細節

George Hendrik Breitner (Dutch, 1857-1923)
Portrait of the African fighter Adolf Boutar (recto); three waspitten walking down a street (verso)
signed 'G.H. Breitner' (lower left)
black chalk and watercolour heightened with white on paper
55 x 40 cm.
Executed in 1883/1884

來源

Kunsthandel E.J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, 1916, inv.no. 947 (?).
Mr. E.R. Harkema, Laren, 1919-1932; Sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 4 October 1938, lot 520.
Kunsthandel D. Sala & Zonen, The Hague, 1938, inv.no. 1812.

出版

A. van Schendel, Breitner, (Palet-serie) Amsterdam, 1939, p. 15, ill.
P.H. Hefting, G.H.Breitner in zijn Haagse tijd, (dissertation 1970, University of Utrecht), Utrecht, cat.no. 152., as: Staande neger.

展覽

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel E.J. Van Wisselingh & Co., 1916, cat.no. 5.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective de l'oeuvre Breitner, January 1932, p. 46/47, cat.no. 90, as: Oosterling (Halffiguur, het bovenlijf ontbloot, een zwaard in de hand).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Breitner, 1957.

注意事項

Christie's charges a Buyer's premium calculated at 23.205% of the hammer price for each lot with a value up to €110,000. If the hammer price of a lot exceeds €110,000 then the premium for the lot is calculated at 23.205% of the first €110,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of €110,000. Buyer's Premium is calculated on this basis for each lot individually.

拍品專文

During Breitner's time in The Hague his interest for the exotic already started to develop. The present lot, a portrait in watercolour of the proud Adolf Boutar of Abessinia, executed in 1883/1884, is an example of that interest. A similar portrait in oil is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Breitner painted these portraits at his workshop in the Juffrouw Idastraat, The Hague. Boutar was at that time a model at Pulchri Studio and was also portrayed, among others, by Suze Robertson. In the present lot Boutar is depicted standing up haughtily yet dignified, in warm brown and red colours.