Erwin de Vries - Stropdas(nieuw) - 1993 (laatste exemplaar!) - Sold

New signed (in print) tie by Erwin de Vries. Specially designed for The Society Shop. Year: 1993. Tie dimensions: H40 x W8cm. The tie is signed on the front (in the print) by the artist. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words, the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the aforementioned cities or the beach. The work can also be sent. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday. The tie can be sent in an envelope, at the buyer's risk, as a letterbox package.

Erwin Jules de Vries (21 December 1929 in Paramaribo – 31 January 2018 in Paramaribo) was a Surinamese visual artist.

De Vries was the third child of eight of Eduarda Annetta Wilhelmina Fujooah and Henry Juriaan de Vries, who already had five children from a previous marriage. His art teacher Wim Bos Verschuur discovered his talent and advised his father to send him to the Netherlands. There he obtained the MO certificate drawing at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1952. From 1952 to 1958, De Vries was an art teacher in Suriname, but he preferred to become an artist. From 1958 to 1960 he studied sculpture at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He had his first exhibition in Paramaribo in 1948 at the age of nineteen. After studying sculpture, he continued to live in Amsterdam where he was an independent artist. In 1984 he returned to Suriname for good. De Vries was married three times and was the father of four children. He died in 2018 at the age of 88 in a hospital in his hometown of Paramaribo.

Work
National Monument to Slavery Past, Oosterpark
In 1970 De Vries had his first solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and again in 1998. In 2009 a solo exhibition in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam under the title 'Ode to women'. He is the creator of the National Monument to Slavery History in the Oosterpark (Amsterdam), which was unveiled on 1 July 2002 in the presence of Queen Beatrix.
De Vries also made busts of Simon Carmiggelt, Joop den Uyl, Ivo Opstelten, Willem Sandberg and Clarence Seedorf, among others, as well as the statue of Toon Hermans in Carré. It earned him the nickname "the Caribbean Rembrandt". His Dolle Mina can be found in Amsterdam Southeast, as well as the statue Erectus. The statue Erotica is located in Amsterdam-West.
He painted a lot with blue. When asked why in 2009, he replied that he painted "with what is there. When the blue runs out, it becomes red and when the red runs out, something else".
He had a great interest in eroticism, which is clearly visible in his paintings and drawings.