3511 - 4698 FINE ARTS - MODERN ART. PRINTS, DRAWINGS and PAINTINGS
- Trifle yellowed; a few tiny foxed spots; tipped onto plastic mount w. sellotape.
Idem. Seated old man holding a cane). Drawing, pen and black ink and black chalk, 13x15 cm., signed "Blampied" in the image near lower margin, on Japanese.
- Trifle yellowed; a few tiny foxed spots; chips in upper and lower margin.
- Sl. browned/ foxed; defects in blank margins.
= Scheen p.100: "Woonde en werkte in Amsterdam, Parijs tot 1922, Amsterdam 1922-1924, Borgerhout (Antwerpen) 1924-1948 (werd 7-6-1948 afgeschreven, vertrokken met onbekende bestemming). (...) Schildert, tekent (pen) en lithografeert figuren, in het bijzonder Joodse onderwerpen (...)".
- Lacks ties. Fine copy.
- Wormholed, mainly visible on verso, but a few sm. wormholes also visible on recto (the panel and frame were treated for woodworm).
= Boot was legendary for his adverse attitude to personal hygiene. His studio was never cleaned, he rarely washed himself, rats (that he could tell from each other), that crossed his dinner table were gently pushed aside by him and it is said that at least once he forbade one of his models to refresh themselves.
- Not examined outside the frame.
= With board label ("Inzending H.F Boot Gaelstraat 1a rood Haarlem. Kleine Sluis Spaarndam. niet te koop") on verso frame.

































