Gerard Pieter Adolfs (Dutch, 1898-1968). Old Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, 1933. Oil on canvas. 23-3/4 x 31-1/4 inches...

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Gerard Pieter Adolfs (Dutch, 1898-1968)
Old Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, 1933
Oil on canvas
23-3/4 x 31-1/4 inches (60.3 x 79.4 cm)
Signed lower left: Ger. P. Adolfs
Inscribed on reverse of canvas: No. 182 / Oud Stads deel / Ger. 33

PROPERTY OF A JAPANESE COLLECTOR


Adhered to the vertical crossbar of the stretcher are two artist's labels providing his Surabaya address: Drogostraat 34 / Soerabaia. Tel D.256. Adolfs was an artist who traveled widely and his best-known subjects were the market scenes, cock-fights, and townscapes he painted from firsthand experience in Java, Bali, Japan and North Africa. This work, painted in Surabaya, Java, is a fine example of these efforts. Adolfs returned to his native Netherlands in 1940. Unfortunately the largest portion of his oeuvre was destroyed in the bombing of Nijmegen in 1944.

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