Sipke Huismans - Karakteristieke SH - ETS "een grote dorst" - potloodgesigneerd - losbladig - Sold

• Whoever looks at the etchings of Sipke Huismans, who was born in Amsterdam in 1937, will perhaps have the feeling that he is on familiar territory. No unclear abstraction or turbulent paint eruptions, which will put you on the wrong track in advance, but a world full of people, animals, things and situations, which is recognizable and in which, it seems, you can move without fear of special traps or mines. you can wander around for a while at your leisure, after all you are in familiar, familiar territory.

Similarly, the etching 'A great thirst' is populated with figures that say, as it were: 'Come on in, things are normal here, nothing wrong, we're just standing here, because Huismans has placed us that way'. Sipke Huismans A great thirst III Sipke Huismans - A great thirst III The work of Sipke Huismans is easily appealing at first glance, also because after that first superficial consideration you can start again with something pleasant - and that all goes much faster, of course, than I am writing it here now - namely 'recognizing' of the performance. Because Huismans is even more willing to let friends and acquaintances from books, museums, music and all other layers of reality parade in his etchings. The alto saxophonist and most important representative of be-bop-jazz Charlie Parker stands on a sidewalk next to Tom Poes. Rupert Bear has just tripped over the curb and perhaps the little boy down there on the left is Pietje Bell, dressed in a sailor suit he raises his hand, though you can't tell whether his face is happy or sad. Anyone who has arrived at this point will suddenly notice that he has been seduced into a compelling adventure. In your mind you pat yourself on the back, because you have recognized so many situations and people, but then you want more and it turns out that your memory falls short at many places in the etching. Who is the woman who puts on or takes off a stocking on the edge of her bed, near a chair from earlier centuries, with her slippers and a bedside mirror on a rug? Is it a copy of a painting from the Golden Age? That could be, but it is also quite possible that Huismans wants you to think in that direction with this image and has not worked at all from an existing painting. The woman, who is stirring a pan on the stove with a cookbook in her hand, could also have walked straight out of a fairytale book, perhaps the three birds and the cat, standing near her, have also something to do with. And perhaps someone will recognize the ostrich, which seems to pull a baby-carriage, or else the elephant, chosen by three males in top hats to serve as a draft animal for a teapot on wheels with a curious head in the spout.