Doggerland

Perhaps you've heard about Doggerland...

Thanks to some beach finds we got really interested.

In January we started the hunt and visited Monster.

It was windy, rainy and very cold but we found lots of fossil bits and pieces...

In May I found an artefact at Maasvlakte 2, our first visit to this area...

I knew it was something special, a so called "spits".

Measuring 6 cm probably a bow and arrow tip.

The idea someone held this piece way back... was mind-blowing.

The expert opinion : a harpoon tip approximately 10.000 years old.

If it had been up to me, we would have started visiting every weekend (smile)

In August, our second visit, the kenderman found this tooth on the same beach.

Due to the expert is a molar from a red or giant deer...

We were both eager to visit the Doggerland exhibition at RMO in Leiden.

a reconstruction of neanderthaler Krijn

I must admit I'm really obsessed by "spitsen" or "tips" now (big smile).

We dis see some other objects in the museum but we'll go back...

Magic from the bronze age... two swords from Ommerschans and Jutphaas.

Dating 1350-1500 BC

Two giant blades, too heavy, no handle, not even sharpened.

No functional weapons, only objects of beauty?

Exhibition Dirk Baksteen

Last Wednesday I went to Jacob Smits Museum.

I have been waiting a long time for one of my favourite artists : Dirk Baksteen.

Being over the moon I forgot to take some photo's of his work ☺

But I will visit the exhibition again so to be continued....

You can see my earlier Dirk Baksteen posts here and here.

 

Beautiful painting by Jacob Smits 

Geboortehuis van de moeder van Frans Van Leemputten by Corneel Van Leemputten 1865

Art of Nature II

Last week we visited Galerie Wit.

The galerie is closed but we had to pick up an etching by Charles Donker.

You can visit the current exposition online here.

work by herman de vries

Pan Amsterdam 2019

Het Ware Huis

If you've visited my blog before, you know I love animals and especially cats ∑:)

Marjolijn Mandersloot

Mieke Zilverberg

Catalan wood sculpture from around 1300

artist Johan Scherrewitz

Les Deux Garçons

Galerie Helga Hofman exhibiting a bronze artwork by Sjoerd Buisman

My friend in front of a really busy but inspiring decorated wall...

beautiful chair by Gustave Serrurier-Bovy

Piet Hein Eek

More editions here: PAn 2017 en pAn 2015

Other antique fairs: Art Breda 2017 and Eurantica 2016

Exhibitions: Mucha exhibition Paris 2019 and Art Nouveau 2018

Mucha Exhibition Paris

The exhibition of the Mucha Foundation
was the main reason we went to Paris recently.

Perhaps you're familiar with the work of Alphonse Mucha.

 One of my favourites

There was a large queue at the entrance and

people were waiting for a long time to get in.

Thankfully my friend bought our tickets online.

Art Nouveau

In the company of a good friend I visited the Art Nouveau exhibition in The Hague.

I just love to be surrounded with beauty and it was certainly worth the visit!!!
Below some of my favourite objects...

Jurriaan Kok - sugar bowl and Mocca pot (1902) painted egg shell porcelain

Theo Nieuwenhuis - clover and clover with roots (ca. 1900) paint on paper

Chris Lebeau - pike perch study (ca. 1900) pencil and ink on paper

Chris Lanooy - vase with underwater scene (1906-1907)
painted earthenware with luster glaze

Theo Colenbrander - four-piece garniture Day and Night (1885)

Cornelia van der Hart - vase (ca. 1903-1907)
glazed earthenware with sgraffito decoration

and another work from
Chris Lebeau - study after a cross-cut of a red cabbage (ca. 1896-1899)

this study resulted in a gorgeous patterned corduroy textile and bench...

you can find my earlier visits tot he museum here and here