SIGNED Hans Van Der Meer Hollandse Velden Dutch Fields Landscapes Jan Mulder HC 2024

Hans Van Der Meer

Hollandse Velden

(Dutch Fields)

Original 1998 Edition

SIGNED Hans Van Der Meer

Hollandse Velden. Photographs by Hans Van Der Meer. Text by Jan Mulder. De Verbeelding, Amsterdam, 1998. 88 pp. Oblong quarto. First edition. Original edition. SIGNED by Hans Van Der Meer on the first free endpaper. Clothbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Color reproductions.

"Van Der Meer follows in the tradition of great Dutch landscape painters, but instead of those charming genre pictures from the seventeenth century that show crowds skating and generally enjoying themselves on frozen canals and rivers, we are given muddy fields and mightily striving, often overweight and overage footballers...But in the end--however sardonic the title--Hollandse Velden is a landscape book. The Northern painters of Flanders and Holland began the tradition of landscape painting in the religious images of the Crucifixion, Annunciation and Nativity, where great attention and evident love was given to the landscapes in the background. So it is with Van Der Meer. The footballers take the place of the Madonna, the shepherds and the Magi, observed with skill, with and warmth, but it is to the landscape that we are ultimately drawn--flat, grey, unexceptional, but eternally fascinating."--Parr & Badger

Very good in a very good dust jacket. Boards have light wear. A little sunning to the board edges. Scuff mark to rear board. Light wear to the dust jacket. Few soil spots and light scratches. Deeper vertical scratch to DJ back cover through the image. Several creases. Tiny tear to the top edge DJ back cover. Light water stain to DJ back cover bottom edge. Stain is more visible on the underside of the dust jacket if taken off of the book. Not price clipped. Internally clean, bright and unmarked. Tanning to page edges.

Original 1998 edition. Very, very scarce signed copy.

SIGNED Hans Van Deer Meer.