Featured Willy Sluiter info

Hello,

within a large batch of paintings I have purchased (and which I will present one by one) I noticed this work because it had a broken frame.
I proceeded to remove it and take some pictures.

On wikipedia I found this:


Jan Willem "Willy" Sluiter (24 May 1873, Amersfoort-22 May 1949, The Hague) was a Dutch painter. [1] He was best known for his paintings of Dutch villages and its dwellers, [2] and also portraits of members of the Dutch high society. [1]

I would like to know if his works have a value, a quotation.
On the various quotation sites, I find his name and his works, but to know their value you have to subscribe: - /

I can not understand if it's a drawing or a watercolor

the paper frame around the work is removable, underneath there is a wooden frame.
I kept it to make you observe aging.
The measures are about 40x30 with frame and about 28x19 the frameless work

Thanks a lot

 

My first impressions are that it is extremely beautiful and that it is a print.

 

I was noticing that I probably did not explain well to the paper frame:
it is removable and is not connected to the work.
The work is instead inside a wooden frame.
I took some pictures to convey what I mean, and also other photos with the flash to make you better see the plot,
so that we can determine better, whether it is a painting, a drawing, or a print.

Thank you all

 

If you enlarge the very last picture, it is pretty clear that this is a print.

 

thanks a lot for your help ok

 

It is a print, a page from a book called: "Per Stoomvaart-mij Nederland naar Java", a travel story with illustrations, by Willy Sluiter, which was published in 1925.
Mij is short for maatschappij. Stoomvaartmaatschappij means steam shipping company. The book was probably meant to promote the shipping company.

Preanger is now called Priangan, a region in West Java, Indonesia. She is lovely, btw.

 

Here are some more prints from the book:
http://www.indonesia-dutchcolonialheritage.nl/Special Subjects/dutchcolonialart.html/sluiter.pdf

Your pretty girl is on page 7, you can see how vibrant she looked before she was exposed to the light for nearly a century.

 

i'm so much amazed ! You're so great, thanks a lot, i really appreciate it

 

Pleasure, Gian. I am Dutch and part-Indonesian, so I would have had to hide in eternal shame if I hadn't found the info.

 

I agree that she's lovely.

Even old prints taken from books are collectible and I suspect she would sell, though not for a high price.

 

given her condition.....not much .

 

Here in the Netherlands it is the kind of thing I find behind pictures in 1920s carved frames from old Dutch-Indonesian homes. I hope Gianluca has more luck in Italy. She is a pretty girl, and many people like the 'exotic'( ) connection.