A standing nude

Details

John Rädecker (Dutch, 1885-1956)
A standing nude
lava basalt
104 cm. high (incl. base)

Provenance

Family of the artist
Sold in these rooms on 8 June 2000 to the present owner.

Special notice

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

In 1946, arthistorian G. Knuttel wrote the following on the nude in Rädecker's oeuvre: "From the beginning, it is the human being that employs Rädecker, more specifically, the female nude, as a pure impersonation of the female essence. He is not concerned with the rendering of a certain body, but with the dreamed ideal of the Woman and, moreover, with what seems to be essentially feminine to him". (cf.lit. exh.cat. The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Gerijpte Kunst, 1946, p. 41-42)

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