Julia Filament – 01-02-16 (sold)
Portrait of my dear colleague and friend Julia Filament who has a very round face, so I felt myself forced to break her up in straight lines and planes.
Portrait of my dear colleague and friend Julia Filament who has a very round face, so I felt myself forced to break her up in straight lines and planes.
Part of the sans titre series, being Anne Baxter, American actress and celebrity.
Part of the sans titre series, being Audrey Tautou, French actress and celebrity.
Commissioned work. They wanted a portrait in a cubistic style. I used velours paper so I could make planes very easily with my Schmincke pastels.
Part of the sans titre series. This one is Sari Maritza, American actress and celebrity of the 1930s. It is with a collector from Germany now.
Part of the sans titre series, put in my roundism style: American actress and celebrity Gloria Swanson.
A portrait of my distinguished colleague in art Julai Filament, drawn in Rotterdam, made in a live session at Rotterdam.
A commission piece done in an impressionistic style with lots of clairobscur. I liked doing the blue in the hair at the left top side, showing the blue sky just outside the window.
This drawing was a commissioned one, depicting Maria Harp, a dutch-american jazz singer. Although it look cubistic I consider it not to be. Perhaps an extreme styling but the forms remain closed.
Part of the Sans titre series, being Simone Signoret, French actress active in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Part of the sans titre series, being Lorett Young. She was an American moviestar and celebrity from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
The sans titre series continued in 2015 in bigger dimensions (A4). This one is Ginger Rogers, american actress and starring next to Fred Astaire in fabulous dance movies in the 1930s). She is with a private collector now in the United States.
Part of the sans titre series, depicting moviestars and celebrities. This one is Jane Fonda in a slight cubistic way.
A commission I took to render two people in an angular cubistic style, preserving realism in an impressionistic way.
Now I found my groove in cubism it was time to put some dutch royalty on paper.
Italian moviestar and celebrity Claudia Cardinale drawn in cubistic planes.
A cubistic view on American actress and celebrity Shirley Maclaine, part of the series ‘sans titre’.
A cubistic portrait of Lauren Bacall, part of the series ‘sans titre’ depicting famous actresses and celebrities.
A rather rough sketch of a total non-iconical picture of Marilyn Monroe.
In my ‘sans titre’ series it was obvious that eye charmer Audrey Hepburn couldn’t be missed so I did her cubistically too.
Being part of the ‘sans titre’ series Grace Kelly unmistakenly is one of the great moviestars that I wanted to give a cubist edge.
Part of the ‘sans titre’ series, being the depiction of old moviestars in a cubist style. I sold this one to a guy who recognized Brigitte Bardot and in fact she is.
A cubistic portrait in the ‘sans titre’ series depicting actress and celebrity Romy Schneider.
My distinguished art colleague Ineke Mahieu at work during the annual Art Fair at Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands at 24-05-14
A drawing of Marlène Dietrich in the ‘sans titre’ series done in cubistic planes. I love the tonality of such pictures, enabling me to create a lot of depth, expression and character.
Moviestar Marilyn Monroe in oil and cubism. I chosed a fairly unknown / at least not iconic picture of her.
Sketch of the wife of a student of mine at Zeeland, Netherlands. I got het off-guard for 5 minutes and captured her.
An oil painting of Henriëtte Sibie, who sits for me quite frequently, most of the times at Studio Brugman.
A commissionary piece for my dear colleague Humphrey Brugman, with some surrealistic elements added.