A glazed chamotte mask designed by Johannes Anton ‘John’ Rädecker (1885 – 1956)
Amsterdam, 1923, executed by Bert Nienhuis
The solid mask with wide mouth, pronounced nose, high cheeckbones and deep eyes. Signed with initials.
H. 24 cm[Provenance:
– Collection Dr. P.N. van Eyck, London
– Collection N.E. van Eyck-Benjamins, Wassenaar
– Auction Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 30 May 1972, lot 2529
– Private collection, the Netherlands
Literature:
– John Rädecker, de beeldhouwer en zijn werk, De Spieghel, Amsterdam, 1926, ill. XVI
– Y. Koopmans, John Rädecker de droom van het levende beeld, Waanders, Zwolle, 2006, cat. no. Ia-66 (ill.)
N.B.:
A bronze version of this mask was sold at Sotheby’s Amsterdam on 22 June 1998, lot 367.