Jan Schoonhoven Art

Jan Schoonhoven, Combinatie, 1968
White painted papier-maché on wood
Estimate is 80,000 to 120,000 Euro.


Jan Schoonhoven, Vierkant met Diagonalen, 1967
White painted papier-maché on wood
Estimate is 100,000 to 150,000 Euro.


Jan Schoonhoven, Kwadratenrelief met Diagonalen, 1968
White painted papier-maché on wood
Estimate is 100,000 to 150,000 Euro.

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Sotheby's continues with its focus on minimal post modern works after the highly successful ZERO art auction which took place in London on February 10th 2010. The above works will be up for auction at Sotheby's in Amsterdam on March 8th 2010. The exhibition in Amsterdam opens on March 1st 2010 at 10AM. All these artworks are from exceptional quality and completely fresh to the market. Part of the Bat Artventure Collection formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection. The Peter Stuyvesant Collection started as a daring experiment with art in a production company in the Netherlands, in the early - 1960s. The collection is the largest collection of Post War and Contemporary Art ever to come at auction in the Netherlands. In the late 1950s Alexander Orlow, the Managing Director of Turmac Tobacco, put his love for abstract art to industrial use. He wanted to improve the working environment of his dedicated employees, he did this by building a world-class collection of large, colourful contemporary works specifically chosen to be shown in the factories above the machinery and so provide inspiration and stimulation. By 1961, Orlow appointed a succession of highly respected advisors out of the museum world and gave them all a simple brief and a free hand. The criteria for the collection were that the works should be large in scale, bold in imagery and by artists of international standing.

These art works were made by Dutch artist Jan Schoonhoven. Truly remarkable works by a man which was once employed as a postal office employee in the Netherlands. In the 1950s Jan Schoonhoven began to make drawings and paintings of a tachiste character, followed from 1957 by reliefs in papier-mach-23, at first colored and with an organic, irregular structure. Jan Schoonhoven was a member of the Dutch 'informel' group 1957-60, then of the Nul group with Armando, Henderikse and Peeters 1960-5. Jan Schoonhoven also collaborated with the German Zero group during the 1960's. Jan Schoonhoven worked almost exclusively with white reliefs of a geometrical structure during the late 1960's and early 1970's.