Tinkebell alweer

Ik las net dat het boek van Tinkebell is uitverkocht.
Op internet (marktplaats) wordt het verkocht voor 60 euro. de oorspronkelijke prijs was 25 euro.

In een vorige post schrreef ik dat ik een exemplaar had gekocht. Eigenlijk heb ik vier exemplaren geocht. misschien verkoop ik er 1 om mijn kosten te dekken, ik weet het nog niet. Eén exemplaar heb ik weggeven aan mijn kunstvereniging "Kunstliefde". Deze is verkocht of geveild op 20 juni. Kijk hier voor meer details.

Ik weet nog niet wat ik met overige exemplaren ga doen. Eén houd ik er en waarschijnlijk geef ik de rest weg.

just another day at the office

So what does a collector do on a quiet Wednesday. Due to circumstances I was early away from work. So I went to the inner city of Utrecht.
At first I bought the book Puur (pure) from Mery dedicated to her project of photographing Teenage mothers.
Next I bought some white gloves to handle my art more cautiously. Some works form Boukje Janssen I recently bought, require more subtlety on handling.
After that I went to Flatland gallery to see their exhibition. It was a nice exhibition in a very nice building. I'd actually never been to that gallery. They focus on photography which I like but their aim is a little bit too high for my budget. After that I went to a second hand bookshop and bought an old catalogue from Sotheby's "photographs from the Bert Hartkamp collection" It gives a nice overview for the contemporary photography.
Finally I got home and found a letter from gallery Smarius. They sent me a special guest badge for the fair Art Amsterdam, so I can enter the preview and enter during this fair whenever I like for free.

Lost and found

In a previous post I was looking for the creator of a work of art from which I knew the first name. "Cathalijne"
That one was identified by Sanneke as a work from Cathalijne van Gent, which she confirmed.

Now it is more difficult. These works below I know nothing from except that I bought them on kunstveilingazie.nl. This was an online benefit auction for aiding the victims from the tsunami that struck the Asian coast in 2005.

Who recognises these? The cat is on canvas and about a square meter. The woman is about 40 x 50 centimeters.

Delivered Petri Barten

In the post latest purchases (3) or Benefit Aution (2)
I said I would show the pictures of the works I bought.

Here are the drawings made from syberian chalk on paper.
Which are all from Petri Barten.

latest purchases (3) or Benefit Aution (2)

The "cacaofabriek" isn't funded any more by the province. And the city council doesn't provide any means too. So the people from the cacaofabriek held an auction to raise money for their exhibition space.

The artist who once exhibited were asked to (partially) donate a piece of art. And the result was remarkable good. I am low on budget so I could afford just two bids.

The result of the auction was that 48 lots were sold and I bought 2 of them. While the auction was in progress, I was having dinner in Maastricht after trips to Tefaf and Marres. I'd made a written bid and just made it within my limit.

The lots are both drawings from "Petri Barten" I actually don't have a picture from them but I will provide it as soon as possible in this post.

Benefit Auctions

About a dozen of works I own did I get by buying them at benefit auctions.

Sometimes I must try to find out about those auctions myself. Sometimes an artist reminds me that his or her work is about to be sold over there.

Matijs van de Kerkhof was the smart one today so tomorrow I'm off to Helmond, to have a look at at the exposition of the art to be auctioned.
You can find the website for the auction here. (Dutch only)


While I'm there at an other auction I left a bid at three screensprints. The auction master will process my bid. So maybe I will be looking at art in Helmond and buying art at the same time but 100 kilometres further in Utrecht.

Below a work from Matijs I bought last year.