Cees Bantzinger - Seated female figure, sepia - Sold

Offered for auction: beautifully intimate and powerful work by Cees Bantzinger. Old work, framed in an old gold-colored frame. Signed with monogram CB and in pencil “Bantzinger”. Unrestored condition, see photos.

About the artist: “Cees Bantzinger (1914-1985) was one of the best-known illustrators in the Netherlands of daily and weekly newspapers, bibliophile collections of poetry by Bertus Aafjes and Gerrit Achterberg, fiction and non-fiction. Bantzinger also received much praise for his free work, especially with his drawings of women and model drawings. His work is part of the Print Room of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Literary Museum, Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam and the Press Museum.
"My father was a draftsman in heart and soul," writes his daughter Anne-Rose, who manages the estate. 'He drew always and everywhere. Not only in his studio in Amstelveen or in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he went at least once a year to draw models. He was fascinated by the poetry of the human body. He portrayed celebrities, but was also fascinated by unknown people. He drew in the theater, in the café and made many self-portraits.