Screenprint Eddy Varekamp Two Figures with Fish Cobalt Blue 15/24

Screenprint 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.

Varekamp 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.