Oil on board 65 x 40.2 cm, signed lower left with initials and dated'54
Provenance:
Coll. Prof. Dr. Henk van Os (former director Rijksmuseum Amsterdam).
Literature:
H.W. van Os, Wobbe Alkema en de Groninger Schilderkunst, Groningen 1978, image pag. 80, nr. 19; A. de Vries e.a., De Ploeg - Avant-garde in Groningen 1918-1928, Zwolle 2018, image pag. 13.
Exhibition:
Groningen, Groninger Museum, Wobbe Alkema, 1960, cat.nr. 16; Zwolle, Librije, Wobbe Alkema, Overzichtstentoonstelling; (probably) Groningen, Groninger Museum, Avantgarde in Groningen, De Ploeg 1918-1928, 26 May-4 Nov. 2018
Wobbe Alkema, in 1924, joined the artist-movement of the Groninger Ploeg after finishing his education at the Minerva Academy in Groningen. In 1929, he traveled to Hamburg and was exposed to non-figurative art. It spoke to him immediately and his art is heavily influenced by it as a result. Time on time again, Alkema proved to be one of the few Ploeg-painters who let himself be inspired by new, avant-gardist art. His abstract, post-war works a ...
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