Harry van Kruiningen - Oil on canvas: The bat women - 1988 (nice frame, heavily discounted!)

Oil on canvas by Harry van Kruiningen. Title: The Bat Women. Year: 1988. Dimensions incl. frame: H83 x w93cm. Dimensions of the image: H60.5 x w71cm. The work is signed by the artist, bottom right. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

This work can also be found in the supplement to the oeuvre catalogue, on the website, of this artist. See: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HwnweuvhVD41Wl79y9tnwnekBkXT3QS-/view

Frames: Damage to frames is not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be mentioned. Reflection may be visible in photos of framed works.

Shipping/pick up:

Upon purchase, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The period for collection, with advance payment, is very generous, i.e. the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be sent via an Art Courier (Swift).

Biography Harry van Kruiningen (1906 - 1996)

Harry van Kruiningen was born in 1906 in Hansweert, municipality of Kruiningen in Zeeland, as Henri Adelbert Janssen and died in 1996 in Laren in the Rosa Spierhuis. He was exceptionally versatile: painter, graphic artist, ceramist, draftsman, author and illustrator of seven children's books, filmmaker and monumental artist. But he gained most fame with his etchings. His graphic work can be characterized as abstract figurative, imaginations based on real forms.

Embrio, 1947 Color lithograph on paper 20.5 x 17 cm collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

He knew from a young age that he wanted to become a painter. Due to circumstances, he was only able to start training when he was 21. He started as a painter of still lifes, cityscapes and landscapes in the style of the New Objectivity, characterised by realism and social engagement. Because Van Kruiningen was very socially involved. Before the Second World War, he was active in the CPN. There he met his wife Rie Lieuwen, whom he married in 1929. From 1936 to July 1942 he participated in the artists' resistance and made false identity papers (together with his friend and fellow artist Ger Gerrits) until he was arrested. He managed to get released and immediately went into hiding. After the war he was active in artists' unions and associations to achieve better working and living conditions for artists.

His work after the war became more abstract and colorful. From 1946 he introduced the color lithograph to

life in his bibliophile series 24 lithographs (Republic of Letters, 1947), Metamorphoses by Ovid

(1953), the Canticle of the Sun of Akhenaten (1954), the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh (1955) and the Song of

Mr Halewijn (1956), all published by Le Canard.

Homosexual behavior of male gametes of the alga Chlamydomonas, 1980 Color etching on paper 59.5 x 37.5 cm private collection © photo Ulco Janssen

At the age of 52 in 1958, Van Kruiningen became a lecturer in graphic arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Arnhem (later ArtEZ). He wrote a textbook for his students entitled Technique of Graphic Art. Together with his son Ulco, he produced a documentary film about the history and technique of graphic art and a film about Rembrandt as an etcher.

Other well-known series of etchings inspired by literary sources include the Twenty-two etchings on love letters of a Franctireur by Multatuli (1973), the horror stories of Edgar Alan Poe (1974), the Bible commentaries of the philosopher Spinoza, entitled Twenty-two etchings on the sayings of a spectacle grinder Spinoza (1975), and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (etchings 1974).

He depicted the life of the common man in Amsterdam from the 14th to the 17th century in a series of 33 black-and-white etchings in the publication Life and Will in Amsterdam (1970).

Nature and evolution were a great source of inspiration for him in the years 1977 to 1986. He became fascinated by the micro world of algae. Based on what he saw through the microscope he made several series of color etchings about the origin of life (1977) and the origin of sexuality (1980) and finally a bibliophile edition: Volvox (1986).