Sale 2423
Amsterdam
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7 - 8 July 1999
Price realised
NLG 2,808
Estimate
Willem Schrofer (1898-1968) Portrait of a girl signed and dated lower right Schrofer 53 oil on canvas 90 x 65 cm; and A pen and black ink drawing of the same subject by the same hand (2)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the parents of the present owners.
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Literature
Elsje Drewes, Willem Schrofer (1898-1969) schilder, nonconformist, Zutphen 1998, no.S203, p. 127
Exhibited
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Haagse kunstenaars VI, February 1954, inv.no. 16/4
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