- With small professionally repaired tear in lower blank right margin.

= Provenance: Hendrik de Leeuw, owner and director of Metz & Co., Amsterdam, hence by descent. From 1929 to 1952, Bart van der Leck designed carpets for Metz & Co, as well as the colour spectrum for furniture, interior and fashion fabrics. In 1952 Hendrik de Leeuw commissioned him to design the logo for the gift bags and boxes. His primary colour blocks were applied to walls, ceilings or curtains. In 1933 he designed Hendrik de Leeuw's new flat in the Courbetstraat. In 1934, he collaborated with Rietveld on the new interior of the Metz branch in The Hague and in 1951 again on the redesign of the fabric department in Amsterdam. In 1933, "De Ruiter" was exhibited at Metz & Co alongside new furniture by Rietveld. The print that we offer in this lot was illustrated in the Metz catalogue of 1933. This lot is subject to 4% resale royalties ('droit de suite') over the total amount of hammerprice and buyer's premium. SEE ILLUSTRATION ON THE FRONTCOVER.