75/3981 Moerkerk, H.A.J.M. (1879-1949). "Zandvoort door Herman Moerkerk". Series of 135 watercolours (incl. title), each ±25,5x17 cm. (leaf), all signed "Herman Moerkerk" and with caption or titled in pencil (10 drawings without title), tipped onto stiff paper mounts, all mounts (except for the title) numb. "1" to "136" in pencil in upper right corner (skipping "104" and "105").

- Some (sl.) foxing (4 drawings yellowed/ more heavily foxed). One leaf dam. by fire in lower blank corner; a few mounts w. pinhole in outer blank margin.

= A unique series of striking caricatures of visitors, bathers and locals of the seaside resort Zandvoort, often with humorous captions. The drawings were meant for a sales exhibition at the Haarlem art gallery "Reeker" in the summer of 1932, but were all sold together to the collector B.J.V. van Hees (1873-1953) a few hours before the opening of the exhibition. Part of the drawings were included in a Herman Moerkerk exhibition at the Museum Slager, 's-Hertogenbosch, in 1979. Provenance: by descent to the present owner. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE XVIII.