Jacqueline de Jong
(1939 - 2024)
The most marvellous days of playing Fools
1967
Details
Type
Painting
Material and technique
Oil on canvas
Subject
Painting; abstract
Dimensions
149,2 x 117,5 x 4,2 cm, 2,5 kg
Identifier
msch 86-422
Source
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Rights
Photo: Arend Velsink
About the artwork
Human-like figures in a jumble of patterns. This work by Jacqueline de Jong is both figurative and abstract. In her art, De Jong would abandon the normal rules of composition to create her own imaginatively idiosyncratic universe: “I was pretty down to earth... except when I ventured into the cosmos.” She painted this piece as part of her Cosmonauts series about the rise of new technologies in the 1960s, such as space travel.