
Sans titre – 08-08-19 (sold)
This drawing depicts Lily Elsie, Edwardian actress and singer. I liked the hair volume, its curls and planes.
This drawing depicts Lily Elsie, Edwardian actress and singer. I liked the hair volume, its curls and planes.
When I was looking at the reference picture of Angie Dickinson my colleague at Studio Brugman, Gilbert said her face looked almost chiseled like a statue.
I am not sure what I thought about her, except for her strong personality. I sometimes liked her paintings and then I didn’t. What I have in common with her is that we both are autodidacts and that we like(d) to go our own way in life. Somehow I always come across her once in a while and that is why I decided to draw her. I saw a lovely – rare – nude photograph and thought I’d include her in my sans titre / roundism series.
In this drawing I tried to capture the edgy character of U.S. actress Talullah Bankhead and still bring softness to her face.
I was captured by the high lights at the top and the bottom and decided to keep the planes straight, putting the stress on the rough edged character of the figure.
I always liked Diana Ross (except for that ghaslty song ‘My Old Piano’) and when I saw a video recently I was intrigued by this shiny 80-dress oozing out glitter and glamour.
This is the first art statement on a drawing I wrote before completing it.
When I saw a picture of a young Catherine Deneuve I immediately saw the potential for my roundism style.
Following my previous sans titre drawing this one shows more clairobscur (chiaroscuro), giving it a rather impressionistic look.
Seeing a photo of 1930s moviestar Myrna Loy reminded me of why I like this kind of photography so much.
A new one in the sans titre series depicting Gone with the Wind actress Vivian Leigh. I like her cool looking appearnce hiding a turmoil of complex emotions, wandering from depression, alcoholism to briljant actorship and back, ending in her death by tuberculosis.
This one represents Darja Collin, fomer wife of J. Slauerhoff, a great dutch poet and writer of the 1930s.
One from the series ‘sans titre’ depicting moviestars. This one is a tribute to Mary Pickford in some kind of cubistic roundish style.
Continuation of the roundism series, representing Mary Nolan, American actress and celebrity.
One of the ‘sans titre’ series I made. This one is Natalie Wood put in the style of cubism / roundism.
One out of the series ‘sans titre’ after the moviestar ‘Gene Tierney’ in the roundism style.
Part of the sans titre series depicting Simone Simon, a French actress from the 1950s.
In my ever quest for finding styles and new ways of rendering I found myself challenged by this picture of Ingrid Bergman, famous Swedish-American moviestar and celebrity of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and part of the 1970s.
Part of the sans titre series, depicting Bette Davis, American actress and celebrity.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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