Maurice Lourdey

Theatrical Scene - Original Pencil on Paper by Maurice Lourdey - 20th Century

20th Century

Alluring Nude Woman is an original drawing on paper in pencil mounted on blueish Passepartout, realized by an Italian anonymous artist of the early 20th century. Passepartout: 23.5 ...

Programme de Concert is a drawing in blue pastel on paper realized by Adolphe Willette in the Late 19th Century. Very Good conditions. Monogrammed. Including a cardboard Passepart...

Figures is an original modern drawing in pen on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the early XX century after Gustave Henri de Beaumont (1851-1922). ...

Sadness is an original drawing in china ink realized by Chevalien in 1901. Hand-signed on the lower right. The state of preservation of the artwork is good with some rip and broken...

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Young boy at Loemboeng, 1918 Signed with initials and dated, bottom right Black chalk on paper, 25.7 x 10 cm Literature: W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp, Zwerftochten door Timor en Onderhoori...

Incoming rain, Den Pasar, Bali 1937 Signed with initials, dated and titled, bottom right Black chalk and ink on paper, 42 by 46 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O...

Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937 Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm In ebonized frame with white mount WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP (1874-1950) Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way. He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths. In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen. Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...