3589 - 4774 FINE ARTS - MODERN ART. PRINTS, DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, CERAMICS and SCULPTURES
- Sl. browned in all corners from former tipping in w. glue.
= With annotations by the artist on colours. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIII.
= Somewhat in the style of Dulac or other British illustrators of the first half of the 20th century. Orientalist drawing, with Persian influences.
- Foxed; traces of former passsepartout in upper corners.
AND 5 others: 4 lithographs by M. KEMPERS and a col. crayon drawing by J. KAMMAN.
= Not in Grondman. Provenance: the collection of J. Bieruma Oosting, w. her collector's stamp on passepartout.
= Not in Grondman.
- Some soiling/ foxing in blank margins.
AND 2 other col. lithographs of a woman by the same, both signed in pencil.
= Louis Gerard Maria Melis was born in Tilburg in 1905 and died in 1966 in The Hague.
ADDED: 6 other large drawings, i.a. by J.A. MONDT, TON MEYER, H. MACLEAN and B. MANKES.
- All w. vertical middle-fold; 2 prints yellowed; 1 print w. pinholes in blank margins.
= Four prints w. manuscript New Year's wish (2x dated for 1955 and 1957) signed by the artist and his wife.
ADDED: Melle (Amst., 1968, 14 (col.) plates, loose as issued in orig. paper portfolio, folio).
- Sl. offsetting in ample margins. = View of the Thames.