Lot 229: CORNELIS KICK AMSTERDAM 1635 - 1681

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A STILL LIFE OF ROSES, POPPIES, RANUNCULUS, FRITILLARIA, GERANIUM, IRIS AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A GLASS VASE ON A LEDGE

A STILL LIFE OF ROSES, POPPIES, RANUNCULUS, FRITILLARIA, GERANIUM, IRIS AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A GLASS VASE ON A LEDGE

measurements note
19 1/2 by 16 1/8 in.; 49.6 by 41.3 cm.

signed lower left Corn: Kick

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

The W.A. Howgate Trust;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, October 24, 1973, lot 70 (as Simon Verelst);
With Hoogsteder, The Hague;
With Herner & Wengraf, London, Spring 1974;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Private Collector"), London, Sotheby's, July 3, 1996, lot 39 (as, mistakenly, oil on canvas and signed lower right);
There purchased by the present collector.

EXHIBITED

Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein & Gemäldegalerie, Holländische Malerei aus Berliner Privatbesitz, 1984, no. 30.

LITERATURE

F. Lewis, Simon Pierersz Verelst, 1979, p. 37, no. 111 (as by Verelst);
J. Kelch, Holländische Malerei aus Berliner Privatbesitz (catalogue of the Berlin exhibition), 1984, p. 64, no. 30, reproduced in color p. 65.

NOTE

Still lifes by Cornelis Kick are very rare, although they are his highest prized pictures. He began his career by following in his father's footsteps and painting portraits. It is only later in his career, after becoming familiar with and impressed by the work of Jan Davidz. de Heem, that he started working in this new genre. Although his works are sparse due to the meticulous attention he paid to each detail of his compositions, he rapidly became famed for his representations of tulips and hyacinths in particular. This painting is similar in style to a signed work in the Daisy Linda Ward colection, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (see E. Gamar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, 1995, vol. 2, p. 557, no. 195/3, reproduced).