Monday, April 25, 2016

Works of Art

Essay In Ballistics II, 1965, lithograph ed. 79/190, 22 x 30 in., $750

Exercise In H20, 1960s, lithograph, 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in., $550

Farewell To Legs, 1966, lithograph, 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in., $550


Untitled, 1964, etching, 13 3/8 x 17 3/4 in., $450

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Artist Information: Hannes Postma

HANNES POSTMA (Dutch, b. 1933)


Hannes Postma built a reputation in Europe in the 1960s with especially his etching and aquatints and lithography. Postma was fascinated with children’s drawings and interested in spontaneous experimentation. The figurative expressionist work inhabited with floating, entangled, bulky figures seemed related to the CoBrA legacy in The Netherlands, and Postma admired CoBrA artists such as Karel Appel and Lucebert as well as Art Brut artist Jean Dubuffet. Postma never belonged to or associated with the CoBrA movement or its members, though, and denies being influenced by them. His later paintings had strong Surrealist, architectural and constructivist tendencies. Postma’s work is in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Pasadena (Calif.) Norton Simon Museum, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands, the Modern Art Museum and National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, the Modern Art Museum in Malmö, Sweden, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany, and many other museums across Europe. His 1999 career retrospective was at Arnhem’s Museum voor Moderne Kunst and the Dordrecht’s Museum, both in The Netherlands.