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Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to present our Autumn Art + Design auction. Highlights include paintings by Harold Town, David T. Grafton, Richard Allen George, and Walter Louis Jones, sculptures by Isidore Grossman, a Don Herron Tubshots photograph, an Alice Ballard Munn whiteware vase, a set of Milo Baughman dining chairs, and other designer lighting, furniture, ceramics, Modern and traditional art, glass, photography, and more.
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Lot 15

Gerrit Hondius "Pensive Clown" Oil on Board Painting

Estimate: $400 - $600
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$200

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Oil on board painting of a clown titled Pensive Clown by Gerrit Hondius (Dutch-American; 1891-1970). Signed lower left, titled verso.

 

Measurements: 31.75" W x 37.75" H x 1.5" D (frame); 24" W x 30" (board).

 

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From AskArt:

A modernist artist who lived in both Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York City, Gerrit Hondius studied at the Art Students League with Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg. He also studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague.

Hondius was influenced by French Expressionist painter and printmaker Georges Rouault. He was a WPA artist, whose mural of New York City became well known, and his primary subjects were ballerinas, landscapes, still lifes, and masked figures.

Hondius had over fifty one-man exhibitions in Europe and the United States, as well as showing at New York City venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1924-26, 1932 and 1934; the 1939 World's Fair; Museum of Modern Art; Rockefeller Center; and Graham Gallery, in the 1950s. His work was exhibited posthumously in New York City WPA Art in 1977 at the Parson's School of Design, New York City.

Hondius' work may be seen in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Whitney Museum of American Art; Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey; Reading Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Norfolk Museum of Art, Virginia; and Provincial Museum, Kampden, Holland.

His papers, sketchbooks, photographs, letters and clippings are in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Some wear to painting around edges.

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