Anne-Pierre De Kat - Portrait d'homme - image-1

Lot 780 R

Anne-Pierre De Kat - Portrait d'homme

Auction 1013 - overview Cologne
25.05.2013, 11:30 - Modern Art May 25 2013
Estimate: 4.500 € - 5.500 €
Result: 5.490 € (incl. premium)

Oil on canvas 73.3 x 59.2 cm, framed. Signed 'de Kat' in reddish brown and additionaly signed and dated 'de Kat 1922' in blue lower right. Reverse of stretcher and canvas with several artist's studio stamps 'Mad. A.P.de Kat'. - Few very minor retouchings. Otherwise in very fine condition.

Rau Collection for UNICEF

Ann-Pierre de Kat was a portrait and landscape painter. He studied at the academies in Delft and the Hague before moving to Brussels in 1901. De Kat soon appeared as a follower of the Brabant Fauvism and Belgian Luminism, a stylistic tendency of Postimpressionism. The encounter with works by Cranach and Breughel led to a more strict, classical approach to his painting.

Provenance

Christie's London, Modern Belgian Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 19 October 1989, lot 57b, p. 97 with illus., Collection Rau for Unicef