Christie's: IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART: Lot 23
Johannes Theodorus Toorop (1858-1928)
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Portrait d'Emma Bellwidt sur la plage de Domburg signed and dated 'Toorop 1905' (lower right) pastel, charcoal amd pencil on paper 11 3/8 x 12 in. (28.8 x 30.4 cm.) Drawn in 1905 NOTES G.W.C. van Wezel will include this drawing in his forthcoming Jan Toorop Catalogue raisonn‚. Beginning in 1900 Toorop and his family spent summers at Domburg, a Norwegian seaside town frequented by many artists including Piet Mondrian. The sitter is likely Emma Bellwidt, a singer and friend of the family.


