Pol Jong - Etching, Depiction entitled “The Drinker”. - Sold

Etching by Pol Jong. Performance entitled “The Drinker”. Dimensions H. 17 x W. 16, Framed H. 38 x W. 37 Signed and dated lower left: 'Pol Jong Numbered in pencil 2/25 Paul John Augustine de Jong was born on July 7, 1944 in The Hague. Perhaps one should not like being born in that city so much; Even worse, he now thinks that he got the regular program of a good Roman Catholic by working, especially in the period immediately after the war. He still enjoys talking about it: how - for example - he prayed to Mary with his bare knees on the waxed parquet on top of the oak bookcase. It is certain that he already knew his calling there. In the evening his father - a real schoolmaster - came to check whether the son was sleeping with his hands neatly above the deck.