Oil on canvas/multiplex. Ca 1929. Dimensions image approx 35*28 cm, frame approx 47*40 cm.
Provenance: Venduehuis der Notarissen, The Hague, November 13, 2013, lot 397; Kunsthandel Simonis & Buunk, Ede; The Rinsema Collection. With verso declaration of authenticity by Willem Jos de Gruyter (in 1950 the chairman of the foundation awarding the Jacob Maris Prize to Ouborg, from 1955 director of the Groninger Museum).
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Biography
The Hague artist Pieter Ouborg attended the M.O. drawing course. After the war, he was a member of Free Images in 1946-1947 and a member of the New Images League in 1955-1956. During the interwar period, he was one of the champions of modern art in the Netherlands. During his stay in the Dutch East Indies where he worked as a drawing teacher and educator between 1916 and 1938, Ouborg made drawings based on oriental calligraphy. During a furlough in 1923, Ouborg began experimenting with cubism and, in 1931, surrealism. Ouborg was also important for the development of modern art after the war; under the title Experimentelen organized by the Haagse Kunstkring in 1947, Ouborg participates in two exhibitions with predominantly abstract art, in 1955 he participates in the exhibition “Holländische Kunst der Gegenwart” in Berlin.
