VIEW IN MY ROOM
Netherlands
Drawing, Pastel on Paper
Size: 19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0.4 D in
Ships in a Box
Shipping included
14-day satisfaction guarantee
Artist Recognition
Featured in the Catalog
Artist featured in a collection
Romy Schneider (2013) Actress and Celebrity A cubistic prestudy for an oil painting, depicting moviestar and celebrity Romy Schneider. Shorty after her Sissi days she turned into a great actress who could take on every dramatic role she was offered. The fact that she would play in mainly European movies, keeping her away from Hollywood blockbuster roles, adds her to my favorites. New Kind of Paper At Goedman Art Supplies I discovered a kind of pastel paper new to me: velours paper. It eats up a lot of pigment but I could lay strokes like nothing before. They looked like oil paint brush strokes. It was fun for a while until I came to struggle with fixation. Al those pigments loosely captured by fibres needed heavy fixation as well and regular fixative for dry pastel just did not do. I turned to a heavy use of acrylic spray varnish and it seemed to work, only to discover years later colors were subject to a process of yellowing and became faint. That was before the magic fixative HC10 by Sennelier was invented and entered the market. I didnot use the velours paper anymore though. Cubistic prestudy I found several nude pictures of Romy Schneider and I found this one to be great. Still don’t know whether it is her on this reference picture but she looks like her. In the beginning of 2013 I still was discovering cubism and this drawing was a continuation of a drawing such as ‘Cubistic Nude 02 (prestudy) (2013)’. I kept her face recognizable whereas I abstracted her chest and abs. The idea was to abstract things into bigger plains the more away from her face but for some reason it did not work with regards to the folds in the blankets. They looked ice floes initially. The color scheme also is abstract: only variations of red, green and blue. Also a bit purple. I included the word ‘prestudy’ in the title but at the time of (re)writing this story in 2020 I have no intentions to make another one yet. Still like this piece though. Pastel drawing on Hahnemühle velours paper (50 x 70 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers
Drawing:Pastel on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a box. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Netherlands.
Have additional questions?
Please visit our help section or contact us.
Netherlands
1969, born in Nijmegen. My work can be seen in many countries all over the world. Corné employs a variety of styles that all have one thing in common: the ever search for the light on phenomena and all the shadows and light planes they block in. His favorites in doing so are oil paint, dry pastel and graphite pencil. He states that it’s not the form or the theme that counts but the way planes of certain tonal quality vary and block in the lights. Colours are relatively unimportant and can take on whatever scheme. It’s the tonal quality that is ever present in his work, creating the illusion of depth and mass on a flat 2d-plane. Corné combines figurative work with the search for abstraction because neither in extremo can provide the desired art statement the public expects from an artist. Besides all that, exaggeration and deviation is the standard and results in a typical use of a strong colour scheme and a hugh tonal bandwith, in order to create art that, when the canvas or paper would be torn into pieces, in essence still would be recognizable.
Featured in Saatchi Art's printed catalog, sent to thousands of art collectors
Artist featured by Saatchi Art in a collection
Thousands Of Five-Star Reviews
We deliver world-class customer service to all of our art buyers.
Global Selection
Explore an unparalleled artwork selection by artists from around the world.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Our 14-day satisfaction guarantee allows you to buy with confidence.
Support An Artist With Every Purchase
We pay our artists more on every sale than other galleries.
Need More Help?