89 Carel Willink (1900-1983) ‘Verboden toegang’ signed and dated ‘Willink 1919’ (lower left); titled (upper centre) watercolour on paper, 39,5x36 cm
€4,000 - €6,000
Exhibited: -Amsterdam, G.I.N. Gallery BV, ‘A.C. Willink, Berlijnse periode’, 22 February-4 April 1980, as: ‘‘Verboden toegang’, petrol oil paint on paper, 42x38 cm’. Provenance: -With Kunsthandel Van der Have, Amsterdam (stamp on the reverse). -With G.I.N. Gallery BV, Amsterdam (stamp on the reverse).
90 Carel Willink (1900-1983) ‘Cirkus’ signed with initials and dated ‘A.C.W. ‘23’
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(lower right); titled (lower left) watercolour on paper, 35x20 cm
€6,000 - €9,000
Provenance: -With Kunsthandel Van der Have, Amsterdam (stamp on the reverse). -With G.I.N. Gallery BV, Amsterdam (stamp on the reverse). From 1920 to 1923, Carel Willink was a student at the Staatliche Hochschule in Berlin, under Prof. Hans Baluschek. He became a member of the “Novembergruppe”, with whom he participated in exhibitions. Please compare this lot to another abstract watercolour from 1923, illustrated in: Utrecht, Centraal Museum, ‘De onbekende Willink, Het vroege werk, 1920-1930’, 1992, ill. p. 6, no. 4. On p. 14 we read that Paul Klee’s (1879-1940) work appealed to Willink until 1923. He must have seen Klee’s work for the first time in 1920. Please compare this lot to a very similar watercolour by the artist, also called ‘Cirkus’, illustrated in colour in the brochure of the G.I.N. Gallery BV, Amsterdam, ‘A.C. Willink, Berlijnse periode’, 22 February-4 April 1980. The colours and details are slightly different.
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