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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4352022, member: 2844&quot;][ATTACH=full]361337[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You all know Willem Gerard Hofker, because he is the painter of my avatar picture.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This 1938 painting, called &quot;Ni Sadri, Legong Klandis&quot;, is expected to fetch a record price for a Hofker painting at today&#039;s auction in Middelburg, The Netherlands.</p><p>It has that Hofker mood I love, comtemplative grace in warm tones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Asian bidders are checking their bank balance as we speak, but many here in the Netherlands hope it will stay in the country as a beautiful example of Dutch colonial art.</p><p>The highest price for a Hofker painting so far was 650,000 euro. Peanuts compared to what some people pay for non-art nowadays, but this is real art and a beauty.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sitter was a famous young Legong dancer called Ni Sadri, one of Hofker&#039;s favourite models.</p><p>She was only allowed to take her sacred headdress out of the temple after Hofker paid an offering to the Gods.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361339[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If you would like to know more about the painting, here is the auctioneer&#039;s booklet in English, with interesting background information:</p><p><a href="https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hofker-booklet-Ni-Sadri-Zeeuws-Veilinghuis.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hofker-booklet-Ni-Sadri-Zeeuws-Veilinghuis.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://zeeuwsveilinghuis.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hofker-booklet-Ni-Sadri-Zeeuws-Veilinghuis.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And information on the legong dance:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legong" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legong" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legong</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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