Jan Toorop (1858-1928), Faith and Reward

Jan Toorop (1858-1928)
Faith and Reward
signed and dated 'J.Th. Toorop 1.1902' (lower left)
pastel, charcoal, black chalk, and pencil on paper, laid down on canvas
41 1/2 x 38 1/8 in. (105.3 x 96.8 cm.)
Executed in January 1902

Provenance
Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, by whom acquired in 1903.
Dr Max Stern, Dusseldorf.
Seized from storage by the Gestapo in 1941 and sold at Auktionshaus Hugo Hufschmidt, Cologne.
Galerie Goyert, Cologne.
Dr M. Schulte, Cologne, restitution claim from Dr Max Stern settled in 1954.
Anonymous sale, Van Ham, Cologne, 15 November 2000, lot 793.
French & Company, New York, by 2001.
Triton Collection Foundation, The Netherlands, by whom acquired from the above in March 2001.

Saleroom Notice
Please note the correct dimensions for this work are 41 1/2 x 38 1/8 in. (105.3 x 96.8 cm.) and not as stated in the printed catalogue.

Pre-Lot Text
EXCEPTIONAL WORKS FROM THE TRITON COLLECTION FOUNDATION
Christie’s is honoured to be offering for sale a significant group of works from the Triton Collection Foundation, which continues to evolve and grow in new areas. The collection spans a range of artistic movements from early Impressionism through to Post-War art, establishing the Foundation as a leading institution to carry out its many philanthropic aims.

Over many years the Foundation has considered public access to its works as a fundamental pillar of its collecting ethos. A continuous dialogue with curators around the world and an extensive loan programme to over seventy museums globally have made this dream a reality and benefited exhibitions at the likes of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, the Seoul Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. These collaborations have ensured that an international audience has consistently had the opportunity to appreciate the quality and breadth of the collection, which stretches from classic Impressionism through to Surrealism and beyond to Post-War work by the major American artists. The sales of the major works in this season’s auctions will give the opportunity to the Foundation to continue its excellent, philanthropic work.

The last major de-acquisition from the collection took place in our salerooms in Paris in March 2015 when the Exceptional Works on Paper from the Triton Collection Foundation sale elicited huge interest from collectors and public institutions around the globe: Those works, which had been collected by its founders over many years, saw spectacular prices for top quality pieces by artists such as Camille Pissarro and Fernand Léger, further to the numerous world record prices achieved for works on paper by Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Paul-Elie Ranson and Frédéric Bazille. This strong market reaction is in recognition of the eye with which they had originally been selected.

The group of works being sold across our Impressionist sales here in London includes seminal examples of French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the European avant-garde, from Claude Monet’s luminous Vétheuil of 1879 to Jan Toorop’s resonating symbolist 1902 composition, Faith and Reward. Each of these works has been bought with a very discerning eye, and often the provenances of the pieces are as noble as the works themselves. We wish the Foundation great success with these sales as well as their future projects and continuous development of the Triton Collection Foundation.

Jussi Pylkkänen
Global President, Christie’s

Literature
J. de Boer, ‘Twee pastelteekeningen’, in De Kroniek, Een Algemeen Weekblad, vol. 8, 1902, no. 367, pp. 28-29.
R.N. Roland Holst, ‘Flirtation’, in De Kroniek, Een Algemeen Weekblad, vol. 8, 1902, no. 371, pp. 37-38.
J. de Boer, ‘Een lesje’, in De Kroniek, Een Algemeen Weekblad, vol. 8, 1902, no. 372, pp.46-48.
R.N. Roland Holst, ‘Repliek’, in De Kroniek, Een Algemeen Weekblad, vol. 8, 1902, no. 373, p. 58
J. de Boer, ‘Nog enkele woorden’, in De Kroniek, Een Algemeen Weekblad, vol. 8, 1902, no. 374, p.66.
P., ‘Tentoonstelling Toorop bij mevr. De Wed. Oldenzeel van begin februari tot half maart 1902’, in Onze Kunst, vol. 1, 1902, p. 112.
A. Plasschaert, ’Jan Toorop bij Oldenzeel, Rotterdam’, in De Kroniek, Een Algemeen Weekblad, vol. 8, 1902, no. 374, pp. 65-66.
H. Dekking, Groene Amsterdammer, 16 February 1902.
V. Pica, 'Artisti Contemporanei: Jan Toorop', in Emporium, vol. XXII, no. 127, Naples, July 1905 (illustrated p. 15).
Exh. cat., Tentoonstelling Jan Toorop Larenche Kunsthandel, Amsterdam, 1909, (illustrated).
A. Plasschaert, 'J. Th. Toorop. Gegevens', in Opmerkingen en gegevens over schilderkunst, Delft, 1914, no. XXVI, pp. 46 & 52.
Welt-Kunst, vol. XXII, 1952, no. 15, p. 18.
A. Plasschaert, Jan Toorop, Amsterdam, 1925, pp. 26 & 40.
P. Mertens, ‘De brieven van Jan Toorop aan Octave Maus’, Bulletin des Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, vol. 18, 1969, pp. 199-201.
G.W.C. van Wezel, 'Waarde Mejuffrouw Marius. Brieven van Jan Toorop', in Jong Holland, vol. I, 1985, no. 4, pp. 14, 16 & 20 (illustrated fig. 24).
L. Tebbe, Vier kunstdebatten omstreeks 1900, Nijmegen, 2000, pp. 71-76 (illustrated p. 72).
M. Bisanz-Prakken, Toorop/Klimt. Toorop in Wenen:inspiratie voor Klimt, Zwolle, 2006, p. 53 (illustrated p. 74).
S. van Heugten, Avant-gardes: 1870 to the Present, the Collection of the Triton Foundation, Brussels, 2012, pp. 168 & 565 (illustrated p. 169).

Exhibited
Rotterdam, Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Teekeningen en studien van J.Th. Toorop, January 1902, no. 1.
Brussels, La Libre Esthétique. Neuvième Exposition, February - March 1902, no. 269b.
Katwijk, Nederlandsche Visscherij- en Schilderijententoonstelling, July - October 1902, no. 63.
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Niederlandische kunstaustelllung, May – August 1903, no 155.
Munich, Kunstausstellungsgebäude am Königsplatz, Frühjahr Ausstellung des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens 'Secession', 1903, no. 217.
Wiesbaden, Rathaus, Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst. Ausstellung der Holländischen Secession, October 1903, no. 55 (titled ‘Glaube und Arbeit’).
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Vier Generaties. Een eeuw lang de kunstenaarsfamilie Toorop/ Fernhout, October 2001 - February 2002, no. 31, pp. 56-58 & 154 (illustrated pp. 57 & 58).
Katwijk, Katwijks Museum, Kunst, Visserij en Handel. Toorop, Sluiter, Munthe en de Schilderijententoonstellingvan 1902, July - October 2002, p. 87.
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Van Monet tot Picasso, Meisterwerken op papier 1860-1980, November 2002 - February 2003.
Domburg, Marie Tak von Poortvliet Museum, Nieuw licht! Jan Toorop en de Domburgsche Tentoonstellingen 1911-1921, June - November 2011, p. 39 (illustrated p. 38).
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Avant-gardes: De collectie van de Triton Foundation, October 2012 - January 2013.
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Jan Toorop: Gezang der Tijden, February - May 2016; this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Villa Stuck, October 2016 - Jan 2017, and Berlin, Museum Bröhan, February – May 2017.