JOSEPH MENDES DA COSTA. "Slapende Apen" A Grès Figural Group of Sleeping Monkeys, 1908. Marks: inscribed monogram and date, ...

Description

JOSEPH MENDES DA COSTA
"Slapende Apen" A Grès Figural Group of Sleeping Monkeys, 1908
Marks: inscribed monogram and date, Bremmer nos. 709 (sticker) and B 185 (ink)
5-3/8 inches (13.5 cm) high

PROVENANCE:
H.P. Bremmer, The Hague, no. 709/B 185;
Christie's, Amsterdam, Twentieth Century Art, June 10, 1999, lot 23.

EXHIBITED:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, on loan until 1957.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Elseviers no. 4, April 1909, p. 27;
Kunstschrift no. 1, Joseph Mendes da Costa, "een prachtig mens", The Hague, 1997, p. 39, for a similar example in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo;
M. Simon Thomas, ed., Nederlandse Art Nouveau en Art Deco Keramiek, 1880-1940, Collectie Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2001, p. 219, for similar examples.

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