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LOT 1139
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[De Ploeg] Vries, Hendrik de (1896-1989). Droom van een stierengevecht

N.d., ca. 1930s. Oil on canvas. Signed bottom right. 40 x 50 cm. Exhibited in De Ploeg, Pictura, Sept. 1940*, catalogue no. 44 as 'Stierengevecht' but the above title is De Vries' own. One of a series of four paintings De Vries dedicated to the subject.

De Vries aan Henri van Booven, 23 Sept. 1953: 'Voor u en voor mij was, van de kindsjaren af, Spanje iets als een demonische macht, tegenpool van iets geheimzinnigs dat wel zelf in ons hadden.' Briefwisseling De Vries-Van Booven. Ed. 2013. After reading the title of the painting at de Pictura exhibition De Vries allegedly was furious. The title should have been 'Droom van een Stierengevecht', after this returning theme for de Vries, who had a fascination for the erotic theme of Thanatos and Eros, visualized in this fight between the bull and bull fighter.

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