Anne Marie Blaupot ten Cate

After her studies at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Anne Marie Blaupot ten Cate (1902-2002) travelled abroad, for instance to France, Spain, Switzerland, Morocco, and the Dutch East Indies. In addition to painting, Blaupot ten Cate created collages and textile assemblages.

The exhibition was organised by Museum Belvédère in response to the book Anne Marie Blaupot ten Cate – Een onstuimig leven, written by Hanneke Boonstra. In her painting, Blaupot ten Cate followed the stylistic tendencies of her time, with a particular focus on female portraiture in the 1930s. While her early, more realist work is characterised by a refined sensitivity to tonal values, her later paintings explore the possibilities of a more powerful use of colour and various forms of abstraction.

Cover image: Anne Marie Blaupot ten Cate, View of Paris, signed and dated 1928 on the stretcher, oil on canvas, 61 × 49.8 cm, from the exhibition Bekende vrouwen in de schilderkunst, Vrouwen aan bod (Famous Women in Painting, Women Take the Stage) at Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen