Emerged from our cellar in September 2024:
a small draft by Jaap Eerland of a girl with a big hat.
Emerged from our cellar in September 2024:
a small draft by Jaap Eerland of a girl with a big hat.
Cleaning up our cellar on September 18, 2024, I found a small box with, to me, unknown content. I took it upstairs and had a look. About a hundred, old, even 19th Century, pictures of WW I soldiers, charming ladies in bathing suits and a lot of strangers and strange images, some leaflets for exhibitions of Jaap Eerland and several sketches he made in 1987, the year we met.
In that year he worked a few months in Winterswijk escaping from his former figural work, trying to get into abstract art. He thought making triangles was the best first move. Earlier in this blog I already have publised some triangles I found before, now these. Today Jaap commented on these sketches: "Not bad"
when going through some big artists maps,
that were high up in the racks in the storage of
Delta 98 Den Haag,
the content hidden from sight and daylight for many years,
were some real treats found;
work by several Dutch artists, but also early work by:
Jaap Eerland
- Dutch, born 1946 in The Hague -
during our pop-up storage-sale in May/June 2023, many were sold,
some are still available,
the following were all made by Jaap Eerland:
oil on panel, 1958, painted as a 12-year old, a Paris' street:sold