Raoul Van den Boom (Antwerp, 1937) attended the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp and shortly thereafter began as an autodidact to portray friends in the artist community of Antwerp: musicians and visual artists. He photographed many famous jazz musicians, including Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Chet Baker, and many others.
With Yayoi Kusama he created in her studio in New York a series of erotic portraits. Several of them are nowadays too provocative, and not made public, but it makes clear that Kusama was very early fighting for her sexual freedom.
With Yayoi Kusama he created in her studio in New York a series of erotic portraits. Several of them are nowadays too provocative, and not made public, but it makes clear that Kusama was very early fighting for her sexual freedom.
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The signed and numbered artwork is a thermal inkjet print on high-quality photo paper, framed with non reflective glass.
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Harrie Verstappen published photographs in virtually all Dutch newspapers and magazines and many international publications. He photographed rock-groups as The Golden Earring, The Kinks, and Frank Zappa. In the mid-sixties, he collaborated with the driven Yayoi Kusama and captured improvised and provocative actions. The large amount of photo material that has emerged shows that the collaboration was not limited to one-off campaigns: covered with dots, dressed in her self-designed fashion, in the streets and the sex shop, in nature.
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The signed and numbered artwork is a thermal inkjet print on high-quality photo paper, glued on MDF, and finished with a UV-resistant matte laminate.
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