Last year
January my co-picker brought me two more paintings.
This large
work looked the most interesting at first and I listed it soon after. I didn’t think it
was great but the charm is in the hairdo of the girls, representing different
style periods from around the 1940’s to the 1980’s. The year ’80 was on the
back side. I thought it would go quickly but it took until September. I had to
ship it so no clue no what type of person bought it or why, only that it was a guy.
But here's the proof that real art can still be found in the garbage:
Freek also brought this still live that I thought was quite nice but hesitated to list
because of its poor condition, especially on the sides of the canvas. It was
falling out of the frame which was very ugly anyway.
Painted
over in grey and in terrible condition as well. I threw that back in the trash hoping someone would take it, but I didn't check.
At the time
I couldn’t figure out the signature on the work and so I didn’t find the
artist. Just looking at the photo’s now I had an insight and looked for A.
Broekman, and found he was a Dutch painter who lived from 1874 to 1946 and was himself a
trader as well. I read he often signed work of others, so we still don’t know
if this was his own, but I found a comparable still live with poppy’s listed
currently at EUR 300! But that is neatly framed and in good condition. And there
are others around EUR 50. Mine certainly needed work and I’m just glad it ended
in the right hands and is hopefully now restored in full glory and somewhere
being appreciated.
That’s it
for now. I’ll be back with more of our favourite picks from 2016 soon!
1 comment:
great rescues! Mixed salad of feelings, I always feel happy to find artwork, sad that someone discarded, grateful that it was "displayed" in an easy to spot place...
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