Gerdine Duijsens-Kroezen - sixty

This imposing painting by Gerdine Duijssens, painted mainly in blue tones, portrays a man and woman, slumped with a glass of wine in their hands, with four bottles on a table in the foreground. The woman wears a festive strapless dress while the man wears a white hat. At the top of the painting there is a text in black that starts with When I am sixty and is otherwise difficult to read.
Gerdine Duijsens, born in Utrecht, developed her unique lyrical expressionist style by filling more than a thousand canvases with colorful portraits of bon vivants and their unguarded moments. Although she initially left the Utrecht Artibus Academy due to her aversion to abstract art, she later discovered her true calling at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arendonk, Belgium. Her trademark, the lively dining scenes, appeal to a growing audience both nationally and internationally through their ability to evoke emotions and bring out a smile.