Sketch for a Silver Flower Vase

Sketch for a Silver Flower Vase

RP-T-1980-210

date: ‘sept 1911’

This black chalk sketch features the side view of a life-size flower vase. The design is executed within a tight horizontal and vertical grid whose dimensions are indicated by a dot. For each consecutive dot an extra square is added, creating a steadily increasing spacing which provides a mathematical basis within which the flowing lines of the vase take shape.

draughtsman: Mathieu Lauweriks

1911-09

zwart krijt op geruit papier

height 460 mm x width 590 mm

Gift of F. Zwollo, Oosterbeek

gift 1980

Public domain

..; donated by Frans Zwollo Jr. (1896-1989), Oosterbeek, with xx other drawings, to the museum, 1980

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