Lot 53: John Rädecker (1885-1956) , dametje

carved with the initials ebony

height: 25,5 cm.

Y. Koopmans, John Rädecker, De Droom van het levende Beeld, Zwolle 2006, p.68, no.56 , pp.308-309, no.1a -19,illustrated

S.H. de Roos, Haarlem
B. de Roos-de Groot, Haarlem
Private collection, The Netherlands
Sale Christie's Amsterdam, 1 December 1999 (lot 135)
Private collection, The Netherlands

Executed in 1913.
Between 1911 and 1914 John Rädecker lived and worked now and again in Paris. In these for art history revolutionary years, Rädecker must have developed his modernist style. He saw work from artists from the École de Paris and his fellow country men who resided in Paris as well. From this period several drawings are known which depict French elegantly dressed women, so called cocottes. They relate to the sculpture, offered here for sale.