Oil on board 61 x 80 cm Annotation on the reverse: 'Mei 67 Voor Saskia Sterenberg van Jozef XII 1971 '.
Provenance:
Coll. Saskia Sterenberg, Amsterdam (Ongenae rented from Saskia the ground floor and basement of a building on the Kalkmarkt in Amsterdam)
Literature:
Exh.cat. Beyond Dada en De Stijl, Drachten, image p. 125.
Exhibition:
Knokke, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, 2017; Drachten, Museum Dr8888, Beyond Dada en De Stijl, 27 Jan.-8 Apr. 2018.
Josef Ongenae (1921-1993) is a Belgian artist, he is self-taught and has no art training. All his life he has been interested in Western and Eastern philosophies and religions. As a teenager he sails around the world on a merchant ship. In 1939 he started working as an apprentice draftsman at an advertising agency. When Ongenae hides with his cousin in Antwerp during the Second World War to avoid employment in Germany, he ...
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