Aart van Dobbenburgh - Ripening grapes - Sold

Lithograph from 1970. Signed lower right and in the print with monogram and year.
Sheet size: 45 x 34 cm. Image size: 43 x 32 cm. Frame size: 64 x 50 cm.
Framed with acid-free materials in a beautiful black wooden frame, see photos.
The work can be shipped, but collection is preferred because of the glass.

Aart van Dobbenburgh (Amsterdam, September 30, 1899 – Haarlem, July 3, 1988) was a Dutch artist and graphic artist.
Van Dobbenburgh became known for his lithographs. He drew various subjects, such as flowers, portraits, landscapes, but human hands were his favorite.

His total lithographic oeuvre is estimated at approximately 800 works. He also made a number of woodcuts and watercolors. Nationally known are the lithographs of mother Queen Emma (1936), his cousin Dr. Willem Drees (1949), Henriette Roland Holst (1949) and the then Queen Juliana (1961).
Van Dobbenburgh illustrated works by the Russian writers Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, among others. In 1949 Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' was published with lithographs of the main characters by Van Dobbenburgh. He also drew 'Katoesja' and 'Maria' from Tolstoy's Resurrection and Anna Karenina after the novels of the same name.
Van Dobbenburgh's work is represented in the Rijksprentenkabinet in Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Jeroen Boschhuis in 's-Hertogenbosch, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Nederlands Steendrukmuseum in Valkenswaard, Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Museu de Ovar in Portugal and in private collections all over the world.