mixed media on wood- 36x46x5.5 cm
Provenance and literature
Provenance: Gallery Borzo, Amsterdam (2013)
Private Collection, Belgium.
Lit:erature: C. Blotkamp, Ad Dekkers, the Hague 1981, p.174.no.26
About the artist
Dekkers was a leading figure in abstract-geometric and concrete art and the visual thinking of the 1960s. He built on the traditions of De Stijl and the Bauhaus, but charted his own course in terms of color and choice of materials. In 1967, he participated in the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil, and in 1968 he was invited to Documenta 4 in the German city of Kassel.
He lived and worked in Gorinchem during the 1960s and 1970s. Unable to cope with his manic depression, he took his own life in 1974, before the completion of several works he had designed, including his largest: Broken Circle in Amsterdam.