Jan Toorop - Head of Christ - Sold

Toorop expert Hennie Berendsen writes about this item on his informative website dedicated to Toorop. In 1916, the Nijmegen-based art dealer Rudolf Bless brought to market a reproduction of a Head of Christ drawn by Toorop four years earlier—an isograph made by Willem van Meurs, who was likely engaged for the project at Toorop's own insistence. With near certainty, Toorop used the same stylized likeness and selected it as the casting model for the relief. Unfortunately, the casting contains no monogram and/or casting number. The edition size is unknown. It is likely that he had the casting process (especially since the work is made of iron) and the production completed at the DRU Iron Foundry in Ulft (for which he also designed the logo) owned by his friend and patron Frans Deurvorst.

see: https://jantoorop.com/1916-christuskop-gegoten-bij-de-dru-te-ulft/