Peter Bol - Grote & gedetailleerde Ets "Het verstoorde geluk" 1973 - gesigneerd - Sold

• Etching by Peter Bol entitled "The Disrupted Happiness" on nice thick paper, numbered 69/100 and signed in pencil. dim. sheet 52x38, image 44.5x32.5. In good condition.

BIOGRAPHY

Peter Bol (1947) is a painter who still looks at the world with 'innocent eyes'. One who paints from a genuine happiness in life. And does not seem to be caught up in the existential doubt of our time. That's Peter Bol. Son of the well-known painter Kees Bol, he has been taken along when painting outside from an early age. While Kees practices depicting the landscape, little Peter learns the art of lounging. A way of daydreaming to be taken seriously. In a playful way, the environment is looked at for a long time and attentively. In this way he sees the strange light of a paradise forgotten by the grown-ups. The world of silent delight that exists beyond time.

Later, as an adult painter, after years of struggle to find his own way in painting, Peter will go in search of this forgotten paradise. Where the opposites are not seen, where there is beauty. Without heeding all that is ugly. To an experience of the unity of things, as the most natural order. As a painter you end up alone. For the loner who has become Peter Bol, the pleasure of painting lies in deepening this same painting. The pleasure of seeing things by eye and correcting in mind as he paints them. Then things are seen as taken from the moment. To become part of an eternity that frees them from any coincidence.

Imagine standing next to Peter Bol. In the countryside, or rather, in the middle of nature. You look at the same thing but don't see the same thing. Where you stand against nature, it stands in the middle of it. Is he absorbed by what he sees? To be part of it for the duration of the painting. The outer world settles in the inner world of the painter. He finds the colors he needs, the fierce and accurate imagery that is his own. The spontaneity, the rhythm and the mobility. Everything to give to his subject that essence and physical experience that are most expressive. Where strength and fragile tenderness go hand in hand, you come face to face with the nature of Peter Bol. For a painting that goes beyond the issues of the day. For paintings that require long and careful viewing.

To discover, after all the innovation, what remains and is not lost, the real painting.