Mari ten Kate (DUTCH, 1831-1910)
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Mari ten Kate (DUTCH, 1831-1910)

De Gambang

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Mari ten Kate (DUTCH, 1831-1910)
De Gambang
signed and inscribed 'M. ten Kate/Java' (lower left)
oil on board
36 x 29 cm.
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In 1883 Mari ten Kate fulfilled a long entertained desire when he travelled to the Dutch Indies to accompany the Colonial Exhibition for Export and Trade. He would stay for one year, visiting Sumatra, but mainly working in Buitenzorg (Bogor) and Bandung on Java. Although he mainly painted landscapes, he achieved much acclaim with genre painting.

The art historian Herman ten Kate - not related to the artist - praises the painting which he calls Soendasche Moeder. In an article written in 1913, he states: Het Tooneel is de breede voorgalerij of verandah, die nooit aan eene Soendasche woning ontbreekt, en waar de vrouwen, beschut door een op palen steunend afdak, spinnen en weven.... Men ziet er de groote van bamboe vervaardigde rustbank, de balé-balé, waarop de inlander gaarne de van den arbeid vermoeide leden uitstrekt: men zieter de Javaansche harmonica van houten toetsen, de gambang.... en het eigenaardige inlandse wiegje, de agoenan...met touwen aan de zolderlijsten bevestigd, waarin de inlandsche moeder haren kleinen lieveling al schommelend in slaap sust (Cathinka Huizing & Jop Ubbens, Artist's who visualized Java, a forthcoming publication).

Ten Kate painted at least three versions of this composition. One of these was exhibited in the Tentoonstelling der Leevende Meesters of 1884 and 1885 as De Gambang.

Compare the present lot to other versions:
Leo Haks & Guus Maris, Lexicon of artists who visualized Indonesia (1600-1950), Utrecht 1995, p. 450, No. C136, and
Sotheby's Amsterdam, anon. sale, 16 November 1987, lot 121