Femme

Details

Bram van Velde (1895-1981)
Femme
signed 'AG v Velde' (lower right)
oil on canvas
63.5 x 51 cm.
Painted circa 1924-1928.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 13 December 1960, lot 107.
with Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer, Amsterdam, where acquired by the family of the present owner in 1985.

Literature

J. Putman, Bram van Velde, Turin, 1961, no. 59 (illustrated).
A. Hopmans and E. Slagter, 'Het ritmus van de kunst' Brieven van Bram van Velde aan zijn mecenas. 1922-1935, The Hague, 2006, no. 8 (illustrated p. 17).

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée Rath, Bram van Velde 1895-1981: Rétrospective du centenaire Gèneve, 25 January-7 April 1996, no. 23 (illustrated p. 82).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The woman depicted was Bram van Velde’s wife Lily Klöker, who was also a painter. By the time Van Velde painted this work he referred to her as a ‘’colleague’’, but a few years later, on the 6th of October 1928, they married.

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