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PRINTS and MULTIPLES Tuesday 14 July 2015 Lot 101 PRINTS and MULTIPLES Tuesday 14 July 2015 at 14.00 101 New Bond Street, London PRINTS AND MULTIPLES Tuesday 14 July 2015 Lot 101 PRINTS AND MULTIPLES Tuesday 14 July 2015 at 14.00 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES PHYSICAL CONDITION OF Sunday 12 July 11.00 - 15.00 Rupert Worrall Monday to Friday 8.30 to 18.00 LOTS IN THIS AUCTION Monday 13 July 9.00 - 16.30 + 44 (0) 20 7468 8262 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Tuesday 14 July 9.00 - 12.00 [email protected] PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS Please see page 2 for bidder NO REFERENCE IN THIS SALE NUMBER Tanya Grigoroglou information including after-sale CATALOGUE TO THE PHYSICAL 22803 +44 (0) 20 7468 8212 collection and shipment CONDITION OF ANY LOT. 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VAN RIJN (DUTCH, 1606-1669) Bonhams are pleased to offer two private collections of etchings Portraiture formed a large part of Rembrandt’s oeuvre. His by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn in this auction. The selection reputation as painter resulted in commissions from successful of works, including landscape, portraiture and biblical subjects, merchants like Cornelis Claesz Anslo (lot 7) and fellow artists spans a major part of his career in Amsterdam between 1633 like Jan Lutma (lot 18). Rembrandt often used his students and and 1659 and provides an overview of his development as a acquaintances as models and was happy to use his own face in printmaker during this period. order to experiment with different expressions. Over the course of his life, Rembrandt produced thirty-two self portraits. Self Portrait Rembrandt is acknowledged as one of the greatest printmakers in a cap and scarf (lot 3) shows the artist as a young man looking in European art and is celebrated for the technical virtuosity, at the viewer, but with his face in shadow and a slightly hunched dramatic compositions and expressive quality of his etchings. He pose, giving him a rather shy appearance. In contrast, in Self was famously experimental, using multiple printing techniques Portrait leaning on a stone sill (lot 10), executed six years later which enabled him to portray a close physical likeness whilst in 1639, the bold pose, steady gaze and exquisite detail of his offering a psychological insight into the sitter in his portraits flamboyant costume show an extremely confident man, presenting and also to capture the transitory and sometimes overwhelming himself as a master of his art and as someone who has achieved a forces of nature in his landscapes. Living in seventeenth century certain social status. By this time he had established his reputation Amsterdam, with its deep-rooted Protestantism, was clearly an as a painter of court portraits in The Hague and was a member of influence on his dramatic and emotive depictions of religious the Guild of Painters in Amsterdam. stories. It was also a guarantee of a rich supply of subject matter and of patronage at a time when the city was flourishing as the The Three Trees (lot 11) is Rembrandt’s most consummate and European centre for worldwide trade. acclaimed landscape etching. The intricate detail of this idealized landscape and the beautifully rendered light and shadow serve Rembrandt had begun his career in 1621 as an apprentice to to illustrate the artist’s technical skill and his ability to convey the two painters, Jacob Isaacz van Swanenburg and Pieter Lastman, sense that man is at the mercy of the elements. Rembrandt’s before moving to Amsterdam in 1631. He lodged with the painter earlier landscape etchings have a sketch-like quality akin to and art dealer Hendrick van Uylenburgh, who provided him with his drawings. The Three Trees was executed in 1643 and a studio and made his introductions into Amsterdam society. demonstrates a move towards a more painterly style, with His first etchings were made in 1626. Like many painters of the variations in the density of his etched lines and the use of burin period, Rembrandt took up printmaking as a way of promoting his and drypoint to intensify the shadows to produce a technically work. Whereas other artists supplied their designs for professional sophisticated and dramatic image. printmakers to engrave, Rembrandt applied himself to the task and discovered that the varied printing techniques offered great scope Biblical subjects form the largest part of his etched work, doubtless for experimentation and the opportunity to produce etchings as a commercial move to appeal to the pious Calvinist population works in their own right.
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