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Carel Willink (1900-1983)
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Carel Willink (1900-1983)

Untitled

Fermé9 June 2015

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EUR 27,500

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Carel Willink (1900-1983)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Willink '23' (lower left) and 'A.C. Willink' (lower right)
watercolour, pencil and collage on paper
27 x 20 cm.
Executed in 1923

Anonymous sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 31 May 1994, lot 64.
Kunsthandel Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden aan de Maas.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Carel Willink came in touch with the constructivist movement in the early 1920's and this influenced his work: some of his collages from 1922, with right-angled and linear forms, are reminiscent of the collages by Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), who was, in turn, influenced by the form discipline of Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931). In 1923 Willink reached the pinnacle of his constructivist period, with compositions constructed from formal elements and colour planes with no reference to a reality outside the picture plane.