Live Auction 3009Nineteen to Now, incl. Topographical Observations
Isaac Israels (1865-1934)
Lot 222 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. COENRAAD FREDERIK VAN VEEN

Isaac Israels (1865-1934)

Dancing Ashanti

Closed4 September 2012

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EUR 3,250

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Isaac Israels (1865-1934)
Dancing Ashanti
signed 'Isaac Israels.' (lower right)
chalk and pastel on paper
32 x 25.5 cm.

Coenraad Frederik van Veen, Houten, 1959.
By descent from the above to Greta Johanna van Veen-Beerepoot, 1982.
By descent from the above to the present owners, 2011.

Specialist note

In 1898 a group of so-called Ashanti dancers performed in Amsterdam in the year of the coronation of Wilhelmina. The Kingdom of the Ashanti, now part of Ghana, has been renowed in Western Europe for its gold and the trading of gold since the 15th century. Isaac Israels made various works of this dancers, and was mainly interested in visualizing both the rhythm and colours of these tribal exotic people from Black Africa.