Ian Friend The Dutch Wives

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Ian Friend / Anton

11 June - 6 July 2024 TheDutchWives
Heyboer

The Dutch Wives

2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Anton Heyboer and four works in this exhibition specifically reference the Dutch artist (1924-2005). I first encountered Heyboer’s work in the early 1980’s working as a Curator in the Tate Gallery Print Department, when the gallery acquired three of his works. One of Heyboer’s works, from my collection, is also included in this exhibition.

After three fairly conventional marriages, including converting to Catholicism, Heyboer established a commune at Den Ilp, north of Amsterdam, initially with Maria (from 1960), subsequently joined by Lotti (from 1965), Marike (from 1974) and Joke (from 1975).

Dogs, cats, goats and chickens also inhabited the ad hoc compound which gradually expanded. He had previously been confined on occasions to a psychiatric institution and was diagnosed as schizophrenic demonstrating a Messiah complex. His work became part of a “System” which also included notebooks and diagrams designed to maintain innocence in life. As the four wives stated they were certainly instrumental in preventing Heyboer from being confined to a psychiatric institution in his later years.

Heyboer was born in the Dutch colony of Sumatra and the Dutch Wife was also the name given to a human sized bolster or pillow, sometimes made of bamboo, that a person slept with in the Dutch East Indies. From a certain perspective over time it also took on sometimes scatological intimations of a sexual nature.

Heyboer achieved international recognition, his work being exhibited in Kassel at Documenta in 1959, 64 and 69. His work was also acquired by institutions including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, MOMA, New York, Tate Modern and The British Museum. He retreated from exhibiting to some degree in his later years citing an aversion to the overly commercial aspect of the art world, and a desire to maintain the availability of his work to a broader public.

Ian Friend May 2024

Etching, drypoint and ink on Hahnemühle paper 120 x 92 cm (framed)

Anton Heyboer Untitled 1984 Collection: Ian Friend

120 x 92 cm (framed)

Den Ilp 2023 Ink, gouache, crayon, graphite on Hahnemühle paper $6,600

2023-24

The Dutch Wives #1 Ink, gouache, crayon, graphite on Hahnemühle paper 120 x 92 cm (framed) $6,600

The Dutch Wives #2 2023-24

Ink, gouache, crayon, graphite on Hahnemühle paper

92 x 120 cm (framed)

$6,600

2023-24

92 x 120 cm (framed)

The Dutch Wives #3 Ink, gouache, crayon, graphite on Hahnemühle paper $6,600 Musica Callada I (After Federico Mompou) 2022 Watercolour, gouache, ink, crayon, graphite on Hahnemühle paper 92 x 120 cm (framed) $6,600

120

92

Musica Callada III (After Federico Mompou) 2022 Watercolour, gouache, ink, crayon, graphite on Hahnemühle paper x cm (framed) $6,600

Spirit of the Beehive III (After Victor Erice)

2022-23

Monotype, watercolour, gouache, crayon, graphite on Hahnemühle paper

120 x 92 cm (framed)

$6,600

Shore I (After Samuel Beckett) 2020 Indian ink, Zecchi ink and graphite on Khadi paper 44 x 48 cm (framed) $2,500 Shore II (After Samuel Beckett) 2020 Indian ink, Zecchi ink and graphite on Khadi paper 44 x 48 cm (framed) $2,500 Shore III (After Samuel Beckett) 2020 Indian ink, Zecchi ink and graphite on Khadi paper 44 x 48 cm (framed) $2,500 Shore IV (After Samuel Beckett) 2020 Indian ink, Zecchi ink and graphite on Khadi paper 44 x 48 cm (framed) $2,500 Gallery Director Jan Manton Gallery Manager
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