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Rien Poortvliet artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Unnecessary to ask if spring is coming..

Rien Poortvliet

Unnecessary to ask if spring is coming..
ink and watercolour on paper on board 36.6 x 51.0 cm, signed l.r.

This work on paper was previously for sale.

Rien Poortvliet, made famous for his Gnome books, was a skilled and clever draftsman and painter of animals in the wild. Starting out as a book illustrator, he made albums from the 1970s with only drawings and watercolors of birds and other forest animals, clarified with a short text. He called them 'Kijkboek' (Look book): large-format educational plate works in which certain subjects were portrayed in all their aspects. His animal images were preceded by thorough preliminary studies and long-term observations in nature. Poortvliet strived to make his paintings, drawings and watercolours a story in themselves. He therefore called himself a 'drawing storyteller'. In 1992 the Rien Poortvliet Museum was opened in Middelharnis, entirely devoted to his work.


Rien Poortvliet | Chickens in a run, charcoal and ink on paper, 49.4 x 64.8 cm

Rien Poortvliet

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Chickens in a run

Rien Poortvliet | Keeping an eye on the traffic, charcoal and ink on paper, 50.0 x 64.8 cm

Rien Poortvliet

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Keeping an eye on the traffic

Rien Poortvliet | Rabbit in cage, charcoal and ink on paper, 50.0 x 64.8 cm, zonder lijst

Rien Poortvliet

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Rabbit in cage

Rien Poortvliet | Two figures, watercolour on paper, 35.2 x 27.7 cm, signed l.r.

Rien Poortvliet

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Two figures


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