Times square - New York

Details

Adriaan Lubbers (Dutch, 1892-1954)
Times square - New York
signed 'Adriaan Lubbers' (lower right), and inscribed witht title (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
90 x 40 cm.
Painted in 1930.

Provenance

Kunsthandel Wending, Amsterdam.
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg.
Museum de Wieger, Deurne, on long term loan until October 2006.

Literature

A. Venema, Adriaan Lubbers in New York, Mijdrecht 1980, p. 25 (ill.)
Ann Blokland, Adriaan Lubbers. Tussen Nederland en New York, Laren 2000, p. 47 (ill.)

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Wending, Het New York van Adriaan Lubbers, 6 September - 5 October 1980.
Deurne, Museum de Wieger, Adriaan Lubbers,..zie hier mijn nieuw adres.. , 20 May - 27 July 1988, cat.no. 45.
Laren (N-H.), Singer Museum, Adriaan Lubbers. Tussen Nederland en New York, 28 November 1999 - 20 February 2000, cat.no. 25 (ill.)

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Lot Essay

Adriaan Lubbers was one of the first European artists who held an interest in New York as an inspiration for his art. His background as engineer stimulated him in his fascination with the overwhelming architecture of this metropole. Lubbers made his first trip to New York in 1916, followed by a second one in 1926. In this city he had quite some success with his paintings. In March 1929, professor H. Barnouw wrote, in a letter to the 'Netherlands-America Foundation', the profetic words: 'Lubbers has seized the city in varying moods and held it captive in his stretcher. They bear evidence of an uncommon talent. Fifty years from now they will bear evidence to the unfinished aspect of New York in the 1920's' (cf.lit. Exh.cat. Gemeente Museum De Wieger, Adriaan Lubbers, Deurne 1988, p. 9).

The artist also published a lithograph of the same subject.

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