Untitled

Details

Daan van Golden (Dutch, b. 1936)
Untitled
paper with flowerprint laid down on board
49 x 49 cm.
Executed in 1965.

Provenance

Gust Romijn, Rotterdam.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Daan van Golden, 13 March-26 April 1982, cat.no. 19.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Daan van Golden, 21 September-10 November 1991 (p.101)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, on loan until 2005.

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Lot Essay

Since the mid 1960's Daan van Golden has worked on an oeuvre re-using existing images. During a stay in Tokyo from 1963-65 he started copying Japanese wrapping paper, thus painting a series of carefully executed geometrical patterns and flower motives. Van Golden experienced the precision of copying as a restful, meditative occupation. In those years Van Golden starts using wall and wrapping paper, leaving out the stage of copying, framing the paper itself, thus using the existing image in a new context: his so called 'relativerend realisme'. (Cor Blok (red.), Nederlandse Kunst vanaf 1900, Utrecht 1994, p. 188- 189)

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