Composition with Blue and Red
Linocut, 1926, Bool / Petersen G33, edition 75. 8 x 6 in. Signed and dated "26/78" in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. According to the catalogue "Het Vroege Werk van Wobbe Alkema,"(page 16), early proofs are rare and a few proofs were printed in 1958. These 1978 impressions are quite fine and the blocks are known to have been destroyed. This work, along with Composition in Red and Green, are from an important Dutch private collection.
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Geometric Composition (Geometrische Compositie)
Linocut, 1924, Bool/Petersen G24, from a small edition. 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression printed in black and yellow ochre. The margins are full apart from a loss in the upper left corner. The condition is very good. There are signs of old wrinkles, small repairs at the edges of the sheet, top and bottom edges, and traces of paint loss of the black showing here and there in the image. This print is exceedingly rare being both signed and printed in more than one color. An impression similar to this one is in the Stedelik Museum ("een aafdruk op okergeel papier").This work is illustrated in the black and white version in the following, Wobbe Alkema, The Absolute, The Bright, published by the Groninger Museum in 2009. Authors include Doeke Sijens and Sjoerd van Faassen. (See page 80.) This impression is dedicated to Jan van der Zee in pencil along the bottom left. They were both prominent members of the Ploeg movement.
$3,500