Lot 276: Jan Bor (1910-1994)

Zelfportret in geel jasje signed and dated lower right Jan Bor 1940., and signed and dated again on the reverse oil on canvas 41 x 31 cm PROVENANCE Estate of the artist, thence by descent LITERATURE Jan van Geest, 'Stilleven voor strijkstok en palet: jan Bor en de schilderkunst', in: Ex.cat. Jan Bor, Dordrechts Museum, 1995, p. 10, no. 9 (ill.) C. Blotkamp ed., Magie en Zakelijkheid: Realistische schilderkunst in Nederland 1925-1945, Zwolle 1999, p. 118-119 (ill.) EXHIBITION Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Jan Bor, 3 March - 7 May 1995, no. 3 Arnhem, Gemeente Museum, Magie en Zakelijkheid: Realistische schilderkunst in Nederland 1925-1945, 1999, cat.no. 13 NOTES Jan Bor was thirty years old when he painted this selfportrait. Bor, who was an autodidact, met Charly Toorop around 1939. She was willing to give him lessons and her instructions seemed to have a positive affect on him. The large open eyes, the heavy black eyebrows and the sharp lighting of the skin reminds us of Toorop's work from the same period.