Sotheby's - The Bat Artventure Collection formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection

Sotheby's - The Bat Artventure Collection formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection [Part one, two, three] - Amsterdam - Sotheby's - 2010/2011 - 1e druk - 3 delen - 176; 128; 96 pp - Paperbacks - 21 x 27 cm.

Condition: Good set - COMPLETE.

Auction catalogue in three parts of one of the most important art collections of the 20th century with works by i.a. Karel Appel, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jan Schoonhoven, Rob Scholte, Claude Tousignant, Andy Warhol, Victor Vaserely, etc. Illustrated with full-colour photo's. With index.

¶ The Peter Stuyvesant Collection originated in the late 1950’s when Alexander Orlow, managing director of Turmac Tobacco, which made the popular Peter Stuyvesant brand of cigarettes in its factory in Zevenaar, Holland, decided his workforce needed something to cheer them up. His solution was to buy art - preferably big, colourful abstract paintings - and in 1960 commissioned 13 artists from different European countries to make works on the theme of “joie de vivre” to hang in the factory’s production halls. The experiment was so popular that in the following year he invited Willem Sandberg, formerly the director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, to expand the collection. Over the next 50 years, the collection grew under the supervision of a series of former Dutch museum directors.