Jacob Boots - Gezicht - Sold

Work by Jacob Boots (1929-1969) rarely comes on the market and is therefore relatively unknown. A beautiful film can be seen on the jacobboots.nl website, in which he also speaks. The text below is taken from this site. "The drawings of Jacob Boots show the simplicity and power with which he was able to portray. This simplicity and power is also present in his drawings of the sun. Boots was obsessed with this celestial body. He had an intense interest in science and technology in general and in space travel and space research in particular. The awareness of the idea of 'total space' has had a great influence on his work. Long before the television images of the moon in December 1968, Jacob Boots painted his visions of space, a great void in which large, convex forms float, like celestial bodies in infinity. His 'space motifs' were exhibited for the first time in 1966 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The poet Roland Holst remarked about this work: "With me from the very beginning, space had no reality without time. It seems to me that Boots has shown time its door." His work has been exhibited, among others, at Galerie Waalkens in Finsterwolde, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, in the Singer Museum in Laren and in Building Noord-Holland in Haarlem."