Co Westerik (1924-2018) - De verboden tuin

Beautiful etching of a figure in a garden with an apple tree.

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Co Westerik (1924-2018) is perhaps the most important realist in postwar Dutch painting. With Co Westerik it’s always about ordinary things, a cookie dunked in tea, wet blades of grass, a man in the bath. Realistic in the sense of being sober and businesslike is not his work. On the contrary, almost everything is unusual. He chooses strange subjects, strange viewpoints and strange cropping. Regularly, Co Westerik's paintings