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Portrait from 1922
Charcoal on paper
Hand signed by the artist
Framed in black wooden frame
Artist Biography
Cornelis “Cees” Bolding (Wormerveer, January 7, 1897 - The Hague, November 1, 1979) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher.
Bolding was educated at the State School for Applied Arts and the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. He taught at the State Normal School for Drawing Teachers. His work was part of the painting event during the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Bolding was a painter of landscapes, portraits and cityscapes. He became famous with paintings of workers, such as his studies of Scheveningen net menders.
Bolding received a Royal Grant and was awarded the Cohen Gosschalk Prize, the Willink van Collen Prize and the silver medal of the Prix de Rome.