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Willem Dooijewaard (1892-1980) ‘Legong danseres’ (‘Legong dancer’) signed l.r., canvas. 100 x 50 cm. Ca. 1932. Signed again and titled in Dutch, on the stretcher. Literature: Dhaimeler, D.H., W. Dooijewaard, a Dutch artist in Indonesia, Jakarta 1992, p. 14 (illustrated in a photograph with the artist, circa 1966). Literature reference: Orsini, G., Soul Brothers, Twin Artists – Strasser and Dooijewaard in Bali and beyond, in: Transcultural Expressions Tahiti-Bali, Museum Pasifika, Bali, 2017, pp. 192-205, compare with a similar painting by Strasser, possibly the same model, on p. 192. Exhibited: Possibly exhibited at Pulchri Studio, The Hague: Bali, Schilderijen en tekeningen van Willem Dooyewaard, 22 December 1933 - 14 January 1934, as no. 3, ‘Gereed voor den Dans’ (‘Prepared for the Dance’), priced at 400 Dutch guilders. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist, in Laren, probably in the 1960s; thence by descent.click here for more info