Nikolaas Eekman - The accordion player - Sold

Beautiful woodcut on thin rice paper. No. 54 from series of 110. Period: late 1920s. In good condition (slightly yellowed, minor damage to the edges of the paper, well beyond the image). Sheet size 46 x 34 cm. Image 28 x 41. Nikolaas Mathijs Eekman (Brussels, 1889 – Paris, 1973) was a Dutch figurative painter, sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator, also known in France, Belgium and the Netherlands as Nicolas Eekman, Nico Eekman and under the pseudonym Ekma. His parents came from Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. He was born in Brussels in the house where Victor Hugo, then in exile, wrote Les Misérables. After studying architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he fled to the Netherlands before the First World War and settled in the parsonage of Nuenen. Thirty years earlier, the Van Gogh family lived in the same rectory. Until the end of the war, Eekman exhibited his work in the Netherlands, where major museums and collectors bought his works, including Helene Kröller-Müller. In 1921 he left for Paris, where he exhibited with numerous artists. In 1937, at the International Exhibition in Paris, Eekman received a gold medal for his painting "La Pelote bleue". He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and Sint Lucas in Amsterdam, De Onhoudenen and the Société des Beaux Arts "Le Trait" in Paris. His style can be characterized in three periods: expressionist from 1914 to the late 1920s, Flemish realist at the beginning of the 1950s, and finally 'fantastique'. Subjects: Genre: scenes and landscapes.