{"title":"Prints and Graphic Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePrints and graphic art form a distinct branch of the visual arts, with techniques reaching back to the fifteenth century: woodcut, etching, engraving, lithography, linocut, screenprint and stencil. What they share is a logic of multiplication that renders the individual impression not lesser but other, bound to edition, signature and the printer's hand. This collection brings together works on paper from different periods: old master engravings and etchings, nineteenth-century lithographs, and modern and contemporary linocuts, screenprints and hand-coloured sheets.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"zeefdruk-eddy-varekamp-twee-figuren-vis-kobaltblauw","title":"Screenprint Eddy Varekamp Two Figures with Fish Cobalt Blue 15\/24","description":"\u003cp\u003eScreenprint in cobalt blue and cream by the Amsterdam artist Eddy Varekamp (born 1949), signed in pencil, marked zeefdr and numbered 15\/24. The sheet shows two male figures embracing, surrounded by undulating lines, a fish, palm trees and pyramidal forms on the horizon. The print is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVarekamp works from his studio and gallery on Hartenstraat in the Negen Straatjes district of Amsterdam, where since the nineteen-eighties he has produced prints, watercolours and ceramics. His work often departs from a paper-cut aesthetic in which figure, water, animal and landscape are set as flat white shapes against a saturated colour field, with an unmistakable debt to the late paper collages of Matisse. Male nudes and couples form a continuous thread in his oeuvre, situated sometimes in Amsterdam, sometimes in a tropical arcadia. This composition belongs to the latter reading: a pair in a Mediterranean or mythic setting, with the fish below as a recurring symbol of desire and abundance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56717917585732,"sku":null,"price":285.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/IMG_5998-bewerkt.png?v=1778500986"},{"product_id":"sjabloondruk-eddy-varekamp-twee-mannen-dier-okergeel-rood","title":"Stencil Print Eddy Varekamp Two Men with Animal Ochre and Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree-colour stencil print on heavy watercolour paper by the Amsterdam artist Eddy Varekamp (born 1949), signed in pencil lower left. The sheet shows two male nudes in an arcadian landscape with an animal in the foreground and a radiant sun, executed in ochre yellow, deep red and black on cream paper with a natural deckle edge. The work is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVarekamp works from his studio and gallery on Hartenstraat in the Negen Straatjes district of Amsterdam, where since the nineteen-eighties he has produced prints, watercolours and ceramics. Stencil printing is a technique in which each colour is applied through its own cut template: on this sheet in three successive passes for the ochre ground, the deep red silhouettes and the black plants and facial accents. The composition belongs to a recurring theme in his oeuvre, that of the male couple in a Mediterranean or mythic arcadia: two male nudes side by side, an animal that reads at once as cow and pastoral attribute, and the sun as an almost heraldic motif above the scene. The debt to the late paper collages of Matisse and to the Mediterranean figuration of Picasso is unmistakable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56741763711300,"sku":null,"price":375.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/sjabloondruk-eddy-varekamp-twee-mannen-dier-okergeel-rood.png?v=1778575521"},{"product_id":"linosnede-eddy-varekamp-vier-mannelijke-naakten-blauw-zwart","title":"Linocut Eddy Varekamp Four Male Nudes Blue and Black","description":"\u003cp\u003eLinocut in black and blue by the Amsterdam artist Eddy Varekamp (born 1949), signed in pencil below the image. The sheet shows four male nudes in a fragmented interior, built up from intersecting planes that suggest a cubist reading. The print is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVarekamp works from his studio and gallery on Hartenstraat in the Negen Straatjes district of Amsterdam, where since the nineteen-eighties he has produced prints, watercolours and ceramics. Male nudes and group compositions form a continuous thread in his oeuvre, often set in bath, changing-room and dormitory scenes drawing on a long iconographic tradition of the male bath: from Roman thermae through the nineteenth-century academic bathhouse scene to twentieth-century homoerotic imagery. Here the composition lets the figures merge through shared silhouette edges and the blue shadow line, a device that makes the scene at once intimate and collective. The flat black ground and the clear colour separation are characteristic of Varekamp's linocut work, part of the same series as his better-known Bathers and All Sailors Ashore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56744500298052,"sku":null,"price":295.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/linosnede-eddy-varekamp-vier-mannelijke-naakten-blauw-zwart.png?v=1778574610"},{"product_id":"linosnede-eddy-varekamp-twee-mannen-cafe-mediterraan","title":"Linocut Eddy Varekamp Two Men Mediterranean Café 5\/31","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour-colour linocut by the Amsterdam artist Eddy Varekamp (born 1949), signed in pencil lower left, marked 1e st. (first state) and numbered 5\/31. The sheet shows a Mediterranean café scene with two men at a terrace table and, below, a man reading the newspaper among foraging chickens, executed in deep red, midnight blue and ochre yellow on cream paper with a natural deckle edge. The print is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVarekamp works from his studio and gallery on Hartenstraat in the Negen Straatjes district of Amsterdam, where since the nineteen-eighties he has produced prints, watercolours and ceramics. As an openly queer artist he has made male companionship a continuous motif in his oeuvre: from bathing and beach scenes to intimate moments of men together at table. This composition takes place on a Southern European café terrace identified by the rooster, the wine glasses and the diamond paving pattern as Greek or French Mediterranean. The touch between the two men at the upper table, the shared meal and the domestic ease of the scene place the work within a tradition of queer Mediterranean imagery in which the southern holiday stands for a freer male intimacy, a theme that also recurs in the work of David Hockney and Duncan Grant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56744574353732,"sku":null,"price":345.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/linosnede-eddy-varekamp-twee-mannen-cafe-mediterraan.png?v=1778577940"},{"product_id":"sjabloondruk-eddy-varekamp-twee-mannen-tuin-geel-oranje","title":"Stencil Print Eddy Varekamp Two Men in Garden Yellow Orange","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour-colour stencil print on heavy watercolour paper by the Amsterdam artist Eddy Varekamp (born 1949), signed in pencil lower left and monogrammed EV lower right within the image. The sheet shows two explicit male nudes in a garden or arcadian setting with a rooster, a wine glass, an open book and lush plant growth, executed in yellow, orange, deep red and black on cream paper with a natural deckle edge. The work is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVarekamp works from his studio and gallery on Hartenstraat in the Negen Straatjes district of Amsterdam, where since the nineteen-eighties he has produced prints, watercolours and ceramics. As an openly queer artist he has made male companionship a continuous motif in his oeuvre, often set within a Mediterranean arcadia where nature, animal and man occupy equal ground. This composition takes place in a sun-drenched garden where two men, surrounded by foraging roosters and flowering plants, drink and read together in full nudity. The warm yellow ground and the construction through four stencil passes with hand-applied pigments place the sheet within a tradition of Southern homoerotic imagery reaching back to the Mediterranean works of Matisse and to the Provençal and Aegean scenes of David Hockney and Duncan Grant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56744590147908,"sku":null,"price":395.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/sjabloondruk-eddy-varekamp-twee-mannen-tuin-geel-oranje.png?v=1778578570"},{"product_id":"zeefdruk-eddy-varekamp-twee-mannen-bacchanaal-zwart","title":"Screenprint Eddy Varekamp Two Men Bacchanal Black 25\/57","description":"\u003cp\u003eScreenprint in black on cream paper by the Amsterdam artist Eddy Varekamp (born 1949), signed in pencil and numbered 25\/57, monogrammed EV lower left within the image. The sheet shows two male nudes in a garden setting with grape vines, lush plant growth and a table set with wine glasses, a bottle and a bowl of fruit. The standing figure wears a crown of grapes and leaves, a classical bacchanal attribute. The print is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVarekamp works from his studio and gallery on Hartenstraat in the Negen Straatjes district of Amsterdam, where since the nineteen-eighties he has produced prints, watercolours and ceramics. As an openly queer artist he repeatedly places male companionship within a mythological or arcadian frame, with explicit references to the classical and Mediterranean tradition. This composition borrows from the bacchanal: the grape crown, the wine, the fruit and the garden scene set the two figures as Dionysus and companion, or as two Bacchants in the rapture of the feast. The bacchanal as a figuration of homoerotic desire has a long history in Western art, from Roman drinking vessels through Caravaggio's Bacchus to twentieth-century reinterpretations in Duncan Grant and David Hockney. Varekamp adds a contemporary, paper-cut formal clarity to that tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56745335259460,"sku":null,"price":325.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/zeefdruk-eddy-varekamp-twee-mannen-bacchanaal-zwart.png?v=1778593905"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/collections\/IMG_5998-bewerkt.png?v=1778502885","url":"https:\/\/thecollectionist.nl\/en\/collections\/prints-graphic-art.oembed","provider":"The Collectionist","version":"1.0","type":"link"}