75 3637 Domela Nieuwenhuis C 1900 1992
75 3637 Domela Nieuwenhuis  C  1900 1992
75 3637 Domela Nieuwenhuis  C  1900 1992
75 3637 Domela Nieuwenhuis  C  1900 1992
75/3637 Domela (Nieuwenhuis), C. (1900-1992). (Composition). Collage and gouache, 65,5x49,5 cm., framed.

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= C. Derouet, Domela - Gouaches, période parisienne, p.73 (reproduced upside down and with brighter colours). Provenance: the collection of Barbara and Kees van Kooten. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE X. On his love for Domela's work, the purchase of this gouache and his meeting with Domela, Van Kooten wrote the story "Een abstract gevoel", published in Zeven Sloten (1988), and reprinted in Harststochtjes (2012; with the gouache reproduced on p.48 and 55). The story has also been published in English in the periodical Holland Herald, XXII/ 11 (p.14-20) [included in this lot; w. a loosely inserted photostat of a ms. letter by Domela to the editor Ken Wilkie, praising him for the quality of the issue ("Het artikel van Van Kooten vond ik ook zeer goed") and asking him for extra copies], in Dutch in the bulletin of the Vereniging van Vrienden van het Van Reekum Museum on occasion of the Domela exhibiton in 1990 [catalogue included in this lot, w. inserted letter by the editor Frits Bless, thanking Van Kooten for his permission to publish the story] and in the catalogue Ieder zijn Domela (Mus. Willem van Haren, Heerenveen/ Museum Kasteel Wijchen, 2001) [included in this lot]. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE X.

ADDED: Derouet, C. Domela, Gouaches période parisienne. Utr., Reflex, 1984, 135,(6)p., full-p. col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to.

= With the above gouache reproduced on p.73. Copy with ms. dedication by Kees van Kooten to his wife and w. his annot. on the works by Domela in their collection. In Hartstochtjes and the Holland Herald a photograph by Eddy Posthuma de Boer is reproduced of Kees van Kooten holding the copy of this book in front of the gouache, opened at the page with the gouache, showing that it is printed upside down: "Bij Mahieu, de grote kunstboekhandel op de Boulevard Saint Michel, zoeken wij (...) naar iets over Domela en vinden Domela, Gouaches période parisienne, van Christian Derouet. Een hoop gezwets en vaag gensnork, maar voorzien van zesenvijftig afbeeldingen. Groot is onze trots en opwinding wanneer wij, behaaglijk samen bladerend in ons hotelbed, onze eigen gouache/ collage tegenkomen! Helaas zijn de kleuren niet helemaal kloppend gereproduceerd. En, wat nog onthutsender is: in het boek hangt onze Domela ondersteboven."(p.55). With the orig. col. slide of the photograph by Posthuma de Boer and a variant slide added.

AND: "Domela. 65 ans d'abstraction". Col. offset poster, 57,5x40 cm., Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, 1987.

= SIGNED by the artist. "(...) ik vang de vallende stilte nog bijtijds op door te vragen of Domela het affiche van zijn tentoonstelling voor ons wil signeren. Dat doet hij; met bedachtzame, beminnelijke gebaren (...)" (Hartstochtjes, p.54).

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