Eric de Nie

Leiden 1944
Kaleidoscoop, watercolour on paper 56.5 x 56.5 cm, signed on the reverse and executed ca. 1987/1988

annotation: reverse: 'Eric de Nie 87 A17/88'

provenance: Art in Office, Breda, inv.nr. 112.4.002E.

Eric de Nie originally worked figuratively before he developed his own unique way of composing his paintings in the nineties. One by one he drips different colours of paint onto the canvas. By tilting the canvas, line structures and grids are created in vertical or horizontal direction. Colours and lines are blurred by means of semi-wet brushes in different sizes, which creates a richer colour palette. Coincidence and manipulation play a role in the creation of rhythmic structures. In this, the love of music, especially experimental jazz and composed contemporary music, is a great source of inspiration for the artist, who himself calls his work ‘lyrical pieces of music in colour’. He says about this: ‘I continue working until a whole of rhythmic colour shades is created between full and thin colour tones and lines that evoke an abstract spatial experience that gives you as a viewer the space to wander and thus makes time fade away. In my work, every colour has its own sound and all those colour tones merge into rhythmic melodies. That is pure music, music on canvas.’ De Nie taught at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam and the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague.

insurance value: € 2,500.-
starting bid: € 1,250.-