A witty Pop Art composition where domestic comfort collides with cool, graphic modernism.
Limited Edition Lithograph. c1973.
Artist signed in pencil below the image: 'eigendruk 10/25' (lower left), "'Happy days are here again'" (centre) and signed 'P Bes '73' (lower right).
Peter Bes (Den Helder, 1945) is a Dutch visual artist, active in various art disciplines.
He is a sculptor, graphic artist, painter, draughtsman, penciller, pastellist, etcher, lithographer, wood engraver, monumental artist, mosaic maker.
Studied at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam). Bes trained in the 1960s, first at the then Rijksnormaalschool and later at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
He exhibited regularly at home and abroad. He participated in graphics biennials and triennials in Switzerland (Grenchen, 1979 and 1982), Poland (Krakow, 1978), Bulgaria (Varna, 1985), Germany (Dortmund, 1993) and the United States (San Francisco, 1980). In 1980, he received the first prize for portrait graphics in Tuzla, in the former Yugoslavia. In 2012, some of his spatial works were shown at the Paper Biennial in Museum Rijswijk. Bes is a member of the KunstenaarsCentrumBergen.
Print in original light wood frame, has been rematted with a fresh mount and is ready to hang. The print itself is in very good condition with strong colours.
Frame Height 63.5 cm / 25.1”
Frame Width 76.5 cm / 30.2 “
