{"title":"Queer Archive","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Queer Archive brings together printed material from the history of queer communities in the Netherlands and beyond. Flyers, posters, exhibition catalogues, magazines, art reproductions and individual documents together form the image of a culture that long organised itself through clandestine print, small-scale publishing and personal correspondence. The decision to present this material as its own collection proceeds from the view that ephemera only reveal their historical value once they are recognised and preserved as such, rather than dissolving into other paper categories.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-ivo-van-de-moosdijk","title":"Postcard with drawing by Ivo van de Moosdijk - with A.E. Housman verse, unused","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcard with on the front a blue-tinted reproduction of a drawing by Dutch artist Ivo van de Moosdijk, depicting two male figures in an embrace. The reverse bears a verse by British poet A.E. Housman, printed in a calligraphic typeface. The card is unused and in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvo van de Moosdijk (1948-2008) was a Dutch illustrator and draughtsman known for his sensual, often melancholic depictions of the male figure. A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was for decades one of the most widely read English-language poets, whose work was not openly read as homoerotic until after his death. The combination of both names on a single card deliberately positions this object within a tradition of queer aesthetics and literary sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56650745774404,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260413_12175126_0009.jpg?v=1776077042"},{"product_id":"art-card-ivo-van-de-moosdijk-once-this-was-my-home","title":"Art card Ivo van de Moosdijk, Once this was my home, 2013","description":"\u003cp\u003eArt card reproducing 'Once this was my home', a drawing by the Dutch artist Ivo van de Moosdijk dated 2013. The composition shows a young male nude in a reclining pose against a landscape background of hills, trees and stone structures, executed in the fine pencil technique for which Van de Moosdijk is known. The artist's signature and date appear in the lower right of the composition. The card is produced as a folding card with a blank interior, unposted and in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvo van de Moosdijk (1948-2008) was a Dutch illustrator and draughtsman whose work is distinguished by a restrained, detailed pencil style and a sustained attention to the male figure. His drawings move between academic nude study, romantic landscape and a personal iconographic register in which melancholy, longing and memory converge. 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De voorzijde toont het iconische zelfportret van Peter Berlin in lederen jack, lederen broek en leather cap, met in het rechterdeel van het ontwerp de naam van de kunstenaar verticaal in rood en de drie Amsterdamse kruisen. De achterzijde bevat biografische citaten, tentoonstellingsinformatie en de logo's van betrokken partners waaronder Flying Dog, RoB Amsterdam, Walraven Sax en Nieuwezijds Sauna. De flyer is in goede staat met lichte gebruikssporen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Berlin, geboren als Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene in 1942, vormde in de jaren zeventig met zijn eigenhandig ontworpen kostuums, zelf geënsceneerde fotografie en frontale stedelijke verschijning een van de meest onderscheidende figuren van de internationale gay cultuur. Zijn werk definieerde een visuele taal die leather, glamour en narcisme verenigde, en blijft tot op heden een referentiepunt binnen de queer visuele canon. De Amsterdamse tentoonstelling van 2016 sloot aan bij een bredere heropleving van aandacht voor zijn oeuvre, na eerdere presentaties in San Francisco in 2014 en New York in 2015. Deze flyer behoort tot het efemere drukwerk dat bij Pride-evenementen circuleerde en daarmee een directe getuige is van de programmatie van die zomer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56685991362884,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260417_21260822_0013.jpg?v=1776786596"},{"product_id":"fotoprint-toddities-dutch-gay-couple-kissing-2018","title":"Photo print Toddities - Dutch Gay Couple Kissing, ink illustration, 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhoto print on Fujifilm photographic paper of an ink illustration by artist Toddities, dated 2018. The image depicts two male figures in an intimate embrace and kiss, both bare-chested, dressed in matching striped trousers and clogs. The composition is built in black and white with finely worked hatching and stippling, placing the figures in a Dutch landscape with tulips, a windmill and a bicycle. The illustration bears a monogram signature at lower right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToddities is an illustrator whose work moves at the intersection of eroticism, queer culture and decorative graphic tradition. The Dutch iconography — clogs, windmill, tulip field, bicycle — functions here as a deliberate romantic frame for a homoerotic scene, a combination that charges the work with both playfulness and political intent. The print is produced on professional Fujifilm photographic paper and forms part of a series of cards published by the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56687897248068,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260421_21222994_0197.jpg?v=1776853175"},{"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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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