Stilleven met crucifix en apeschedel - Still life with crucifix and monkey skull

细节

Wim Schuhmacher (1894-1986)
Stilleven met crucifix en apeschedel - Still life with crucifix and monkey skull
signed 'W. Schuhmacher.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
60 x 32 cm.
Executed in 1937.

来源

Kunstzaal van Lier, Amsterdam, 1936, no. 112.
J.E.H. Kramers, Baarn.

出版

Kasper Niehaus, De Telegraaf, Amsterdam 13 November 1937
S.P. Abas, 'Wim Schuhmacher', Elsevier Geïllustreerd Maandschrift, 48, 1938, no. VII (ill.)
Kasper Niehaus, W. Schuhmacher, Amsterdam 1940 (ill.)
Jan van Geest, Wim Schuhmacher. De meester van het grijs, Arnhem 1991, p.228, no.181.

展览

Amsterdam, Kunstzaal van Lier, Nieuwe werken door W. Schuhmacher, 6 November - 25 November 1937, no. 4
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, W.Schuhmacher 1894 -1954, 29 April - 30 May 1954, no. 42.

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拍品专文

In the 1930's the animal skull was an often recurring pictural element in Schuhmacher's still lifes. He shared this interest with the artists Charley Toorop and Raoul Hynckes. Schuhmacher probably owned the depicted monkey skull since it was represented five years later in Stilleven met apenschedel en vogelskelet (Van Geest, cat.no. 197). The artist also owned the crucifix that we see in the present lot. This sculpture missed its right arm and therefore, he painted a mirror-imaged copy of the left arm. Schuhmacher compared the suffering life of an artist with the life of Christ.