#peter vos

[huariqueje]

Rinus  -  Peter Vos , 2022.

Dutch. b. 1975  -  

Oil on canvas ,  57 x 47 cm.

[kundst]

Peter Vos (NL 1935-2010)

Letter to Rinus Ferdinandusse (1966)

Ink on paper (15 x 10,5 cm)

[thebigkelu]

[oehoe-owls]

Peter Vos (source: Vogelparadijs)

[huariqueje]

Karel    -    Peter Vos , 2022.

Dutch. b. 1975  -  

Oil on canvas ,  38 x 52 cm

[huariqueje]

Nelly   -  Peter Vos , 2021.

Dutch. b. 1975  -  

Oil on canvas ,   58 x 36 cm.

[noxaeternaetc]

Portrait of young woman: Marte Röling, while drawing in a chair, 1957. Drypoint, 178 x 120 mm

Peter Vos (1935-2010) Portrait of young woman: Marte Röling, in chair, half length, 1957. Drypoint, 110 x 97 mm

[noxaeternaetc]

Peter Vos (1935-2010) The Island Hoopoe, custom made book with drawings for the artist's muse, the Dutch poet Fritzi Harmsen ten Beek. When their relationship ended the distraught artist tore up the book and threw it in the pond of the squatted villa where they were living, but Fritzi fished the pages out and dried them.

Two Hoopoe birds announce themselves at the front door of the villa

They write a note and leave a magical key you can use to fly with a table to the Island Hoopoe on a full moon night.

The table flies away

And breaks at landing

The birds are shown enjoying activities on their island, fine dining among them

"Before you know it you understand and you try to stick out your nose as hoopoe-like as you can. Your hair rises in recognition and you feel it changing color. Your arms grow feathers and your knees buckle the other way around. And when you put your leg forward while everyone around you mutters approvingly, you see... [drawing of bird claw]"