Frits Klein (1898 - 1990)
Frits Klein
Baigneurs sur la plage Mediterranee
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
50 x 61 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Le Cirque
Signed lower right
Oil on board
17 x 21 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Journee dans le parc
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
50 x 61 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Sur la plage, Santa Margherita-Ligure
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas laid down on board
40 x 50 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Girl with horse head, 1931
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm.
Provenance:
Collection Piet Boendermaker
Private collection, The Netherlands
Literatuur:
P. Fierens, L Art Hollandais Contemporain, Paris, 1933, ill. 30.
A. Venema, Nederlandse Schilders in Parijs 1900-1940, Baarn 1980, p. 248 (ill.).
P. Spijk, De Bergense School en Piet Boendermaker, Zwolle, 1997, p. 111-112, 237.
P. Spijk, De Bergense School en Piet Boendermaker, Zwolle, 2015, p. 127 (ill).
Frits Klein
Le Cirque
Signed lower right
Gouache on paper
15 x 12,5 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Dimanche apres midi, Bois du Boulogne
Signed lower left
Charcoal on paper
20 x 26 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Baignade a Nice, quartier La Reserve
Signed lower left
Watercolour on paper
16,3 x 23,8 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the Artist.
Frits Klein
Cafe du Dome, Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris
Signed lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper
33 x 40,5 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Sur la plage
Signed lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper
9,8 x 12,5 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Vue du balcon, Playa des Cana, Ibiza
Signed lower right
Watercolour on paper
9,8 x 14 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Sur la Mer, Ibiza
Signed lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper
19,7 x 28,3 cm.
Provenance:
Heirs of Frits Klein.
Frits Klein
Jardin de Tuileries, Hiver, 1936
Signed lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper
32,5 x 42,7 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Sur la plage Mediterranee
Signed lower right
Watercolour on paper
10,1 x 15 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Vue sur la plage de Scheveningen Pays-Bas, Vu du Pier
Signed lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper
13,3 x 19,2 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Projet pour affiche la chauve souris de Johann Strauss
Signed lower right
Watercolour and pencil on paper
10 x 8,7 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Marche
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
21 x 14,5 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Bateaux, Santa Margherita-Ligure
Signed lower left
Watercolour and gouache on paper
11,6 x 15 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Sur la plage Mediterranee
Signed lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper
13 x 16,6 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Vue du balcon, Playa des Cana, Ibiza
Signed lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper
10,2 x 16 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Frits Klein
Nenuphars dans un etang du jardin de Alhambra
Signed lower right
Watercolour and gouache on paper
13,5 x 20,5 cm.
Provenance: The Estate of the artist.
Artists
Frits Klein
(1898 - 1990)
Friedrich Franz Albert (‘Frits' or ‘Fred') Klein was born in Java in 1898 into a wealthy family. He was sent back to Holland for schooling, and it was there that he came into contact with the artistcally minded Wegerif family. Frits knew that he wanted to be an artist, and in 1920 he left for Paris. There he established himself in a house in the Rue de Depart, where Mondrian also had a studio. But in 1926, along with a group of other Amsterdam artistic types, he moved south to Cagnes sur Mer, near Nice.
Frits became known as a "sunny" and decorative painter. He used a great deal of colour in his work. His favourite subject were circus horses - but clowns and beach scenes and street scenes also feature prominently in his work.
On Frits' 80th birthday he was honoured with a major retrospective at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and on his 90th a second retrospective was organized at Pulchri in The Hague.