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HERMAN MOERKERK CHARACTER STUDIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Study sheet with nine character heads<\/strong>, black chalk on paper by Herman Moerkerk<\/strong>, ca. 1925\u20131935<\/strong>. Signed lower left \u201cHerman Moerkerk<\/em>\u201d. Size: 22.3 \u00d7 14.3 cm.<\/p>\n

On this lively study sheet, Herman Moerkerk brought together nine individual studies of heads and profiles. Men and women of different ages are captured with varying degrees of finish: sometimes with only a few lines defining the nose, mouth and chin, elsewhere with strong passages of black chalk in the hair, hats and clothing.<\/p>\n

The variety of headwear almost plays a leading role. We see men wearing a cap and a felt hat, alongside several women in fashionable hats, ranging from a broad hat worn at an angle to the close-fitting cloche so characteristic of the 1920s and early 1930s. The figures appear to have been drawn directly from life: fleeting observations of people who caught Moerkerk\u2019s attention, perhaps in the street, in a caf\u00e9, at a gathering or while travelling.<\/p>\n

The sheet occupies the boundary between portraiture and the study of character types. Moerkerk was not aiming at fully developed portraits, but at the single feature that makes a face instantly recognisable: a prominent nose, a projecting chin, a glance from beneath the brim of a hat, or the particular angle of a head.<\/p>\n

It was precisely this quick and perceptive observation that was one of Moerkerk\u2019s greatest strengths. He became known for his caricatures and drawings of distinctive figures and character types; contemporaries already remarked upon his swiftly drawn studies of individual \u2018types\u2019. Herman Moerkerk<\/a> (1879\u20131949) lived and worked in \u2019s-Hertogenbosch for many years before moving to Haarlem in 1928, where he worked as an illustrator for the magazine Katholieke Illustratie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Price: 475,-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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