Category: Artworks

Betty Broadbent, billed as the “Tattooed Venus,” poses with an easy confidence in this studio portrait made in Sydney on 4 April 1938. Turned slightly away yet looking back toward the camera, she balances poise and playfulness, her expression suggesting a performer fully aware of her audience. The plain backdrop and uncluttered stage-like floor keep…

1974 arrives here as a burst of symbolic energy: a butterfly poised above a red star, hovering over a loose, blue-washed form that reads like a tree, a plume, or a rising wave. The palette feels both celebratory and unsettled—ink-black outlines, flickers of warm flame-like strokes, and a textured field of dotted light that suggests…

Bold blocks of Dutch lettering dominate the lower half of W. Poll’s 1939 poster, turning a safety message into something impossible to ignore. A worker in a blue coat raises one hand to his face while gripping a tool in the other, and a bright, star-like flash at the eye suggests the instant when debris…

A stark warning dominates R. Wormer’s 1952 poster: a large, open hand marked with red scratches, a severed black cable arcing across the palm like a whip. Beneath it, a crouching figure moves through a red-lit space, suggesting the everyday worker caught in a moment of danger. The bold Dutch slogan “GESLETEN KABEL KAPOTTE HANDEN”…

Bold lettering shouts “VOGELS” across a clear blue field, while a crowd of black, cut-paper birds sweeps diagonally through the frame. At right, a sleek feline silhouette rises like a shadow against the sky, its whiskers and curved profile reduced to the simplest possible lines. The Dutch phrase “zijn niet voor de poes” anchors the…

Cut paper becomes sculpture here, shaped into a tall, pale figure whose face is split into planes and angles, as if a drawing stepped off the page and learned to stand. Against a deep black background, every crease and overlap reads clearly: a simplified eye, a sharp nose, and an arm that seems to fold…

A startling, mask-like face fills the frame, rendered in bold strokes and anxious color. Wide, uneven eyes and a long, angular nose are outlined with dark lines, while planes of green, violet, and dusty red carve the features into sharp geometry. The rough texture of the medium—part sketch, part painting—lets you feel the hand at…

A quiet line of paw-marks leads across the page, and two familiar companions follow with the solemn concentration of true explorers. The larger bear pauses mid-step, one paw lifted as if weighing the evidence, while the smaller figure trails behind, bundled in stripes and curiosity. Sparse strokes suggest grass and open ground, letting the footprints…

Across a soft field of colored pencil and ink, the hand-lettered title “THE POOH COOK BOOK” rises like a signboard, while a small bear in a tall chef’s hat stands center stage with a pan held out in ceremony. Around him gathers a familiar woodland audience—tiny figures with attentive faces, a striped companion mid-gesture, and…

Uneasy humor sits on the subject’s face, pulled into a crooked grin that feels more practiced than spontaneous. His shirt hangs open at the chest, and the plain studio backdrop keeps attention locked on skin, wrinkles, and expression. In the corner of the frame another figure leans in, partly obscured, suggesting the presence of an…