Christine Boumeester (1904-1971) - Sans titre

Christine Boumeester (1904-1971) - Signed original drawing. Abstraction, 1948.
Abstract composition
Drawing dimensions: 27 x 17 cm.
Frame dimensions: 39 x 29 cm.
Mixed media technique on paper, including pastel.
Signed 'Christine' in pencil at the bottom right, dated 1948 at the bottom left (partially erased).
Good overall condition despite its age.
Personal purchase at an auction in the Paris region.

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Annie Christine Boumeester, who often signs her works with only the first name Christine, was born in Batavia (now Djakarta) in Indonesia in 1904.
Her work has always been very free from the artistic currents of her time. She earned a diploma as a drawing teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in The Hague in 1925, but being less interested in teaching, she took a studio and worked under the direction of the painter Reuter. In 1935, the Santee Landwer gallery in Amsterdam hosted her first solo exhibition. Enrolled at the Grande Chaumière Academy in Paris, she met the American painter Henri Goetz there, whom she married six months later. She exhibited in various Parisian galleries as well as at the Salon des Superindépendants, where she displayed her works every year until 1938.

Influenced by the work of her friend Hans Hartung, she gradually turned to abstract painting. During these years, the couple frequented the González and their surrealist friends: the Bréa, Mary Low (1912-2007), Oscar Domínguez, André Breton. In 1963, she settled with her husband in Villefranche-sur-Mer, where they mingled with many artists such as Picasso, H. Hartung, Viera da Silva, Zao Wou-Ki. In 1968, she fell ill and died in 1971.
In 1983, following various donations, Villefranche-sur-Mer established the Goetz-Boumeester Museum. From figuration to abstraction, C. Boumeester's work is marked by a strong poetry of forms and colors, where landscapes of the East and West are united in dreamlike compositions with multiple splashes.
The friendship that binds Christine Boumeester to Francis Picabia until his death in 1953 is significant. She later restored Picabia's painting, Udnie, which is kept at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris.