Details
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
Provenance
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.
Literature
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.
Exhibited
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.
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