Dick Bruna - “Miffy and Balloon”.





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Dick Bruna: “Miffy and Balloon”.
In the border, in small print, is the name of the artist, the title of the work, and copyright.
The work is in excellent condition.
Never been hung and has been stored in a dark archival storage between protective acid-free paper.
The photos shown are part of the description; the shown frame(size) is for illustration and is not included.
This artwork is carefully securely packaged and shipped in protective acid-free paper.
No shipping to the Canary Islands.
Miffy was conceived by the Dutch graphic artist Dick Bruna, who was born in 1927—the year of the rabbit according to the Japanese zodiac.
In 1955, during a rainy seaside holiday in the Netherlands, Dick Bruna amused his young son by sketching a tame rabbit bouncing around in the garden of their holiday home. Before bedtime, he invented stories about the bunny, and thus the character Miffy (Nijntje in the original Dutch) came to be.
The Miffy stories have now been published in more than 50 languages and more than 85 million copies have been sold. Miffy has her own TV series – Miffy and Friends – and toys and merchandise are sold on five continents.
Dick Bruna, now in his eighties, still lives in Utrecht. He has published 124 picture books to date (of which 30 are about Miffy) and is one of the most borrowed authors in Dutch libraries. Over the years Bruna has illustrated more than 2,000 book covers and more than 100 posters for the family publishing house A.W. Bruna & Zoon.
Some artists of comparable renown, such as Basquiat, Picasso, Hockney, Lichtenstein, Sorolla, Banksy, Brainwash, Miró, Nara, Soulages, Lagasse, Ramos, Rothko, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, Modigliani, Hirst, Chagall, Koons, Haring, Indiana, Mondrian, Groening, Richter, Monroe, Kusama, Murakami, Testa, Villemot, Oldenburg, Hopper, Ripolles, Wesselmann, Magritte, Jenk, Orlinski, Wille, Rizzi, Manara, Thiebaud, Herrera, Laurent, Klein, Coa, Dior, Vuitton, Kaws, Valentino, Cappiello, Kandinsky, Warhol, Buffa, Tura, Castle, Ponti, Knoll, Le Corbusier, Robert, Johns, Starck, Breuer, Nelson, Mogensen, Ponti, Bertoia, Urquiola, Chillida, Magistretti, Gauguin, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Botero, Katz, Braque, among others."}
Seller's Story
Dick Bruna: “Miffy and Balloon”.
In the border, in small print, is the name of the artist, the title of the work, and copyright.
The work is in excellent condition.
Never been hung and has been stored in a dark archival storage between protective acid-free paper.
The photos shown are part of the description; the shown frame(size) is for illustration and is not included.
This artwork is carefully securely packaged and shipped in protective acid-free paper.
No shipping to the Canary Islands.
Miffy was conceived by the Dutch graphic artist Dick Bruna, who was born in 1927—the year of the rabbit according to the Japanese zodiac.
In 1955, during a rainy seaside holiday in the Netherlands, Dick Bruna amused his young son by sketching a tame rabbit bouncing around in the garden of their holiday home. Before bedtime, he invented stories about the bunny, and thus the character Miffy (Nijntje in the original Dutch) came to be.
The Miffy stories have now been published in more than 50 languages and more than 85 million copies have been sold. Miffy has her own TV series – Miffy and Friends – and toys and merchandise are sold on five continents.
Dick Bruna, now in his eighties, still lives in Utrecht. He has published 124 picture books to date (of which 30 are about Miffy) and is one of the most borrowed authors in Dutch libraries. Over the years Bruna has illustrated more than 2,000 book covers and more than 100 posters for the family publishing house A.W. Bruna & Zoon.
Some artists of comparable renown, such as Basquiat, Picasso, Hockney, Lichtenstein, Sorolla, Banksy, Brainwash, Miró, Nara, Soulages, Lagasse, Ramos, Rothko, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, Modigliani, Hirst, Chagall, Koons, Haring, Indiana, Mondrian, Groening, Richter, Monroe, Kusama, Murakami, Testa, Villemot, Oldenburg, Hopper, Ripolles, Wesselmann, Magritte, Jenk, Orlinski, Wille, Rizzi, Manara, Thiebaud, Herrera, Laurent, Klein, Coa, Dior, Vuitton, Kaws, Valentino, Cappiello, Kandinsky, Warhol, Buffa, Tura, Castle, Ponti, Knoll, Le Corbusier, Robert, Johns, Starck, Breuer, Nelson, Mogensen, Ponti, Bertoia, Urquiola, Chillida, Magistretti, Gauguin, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Botero, Katz, Braque, among others."}
