Koos van Keulen (1940)
By the Sea (Sound)
2001 | oil paint on board | 62 × 121 cm
What would 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer think of this work if he were alive today?
Koos van Keulen builds suspense in her paintings by leaving things out. Sometimes we see only a person’s back, while the story takes place outside the painting. Often, her work is also a clever nod – here, the girl with the pearl earrings – to famous artists of the past.
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