MARCELLE HAUSELAAR

Born 1945 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

She studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague and became a painter and printmaker.

Then she started the adventure of travelling until one day decided to settle in London.

She began painting abstract works but turned to figurative in a few years.

She is also fascinated by etchings.

"three degrees of separation", 2004

"possible dinamics around a dining table", 2001

"portrait of a self controlled man", 2003

 "round about midnight", 2003

"between a rock and a hard place", etching

drawing, pencil on board, 2016

"Judith", 1998

"dream catcher", 2017

"king of the castle", 2010

"negociators", 2014

 "ritual", 2013

"who is a pretty boy then", 2014

"Snow-White"

"spectators", 2013

"bikini line",  2017

"love is a dog from hell", 2014, etching-aquatint

"afraid of the dark", 2009

"self portrait", 2006

ILYA ZOMB

Born 1960 in Russia.

Studied at the Odessa State Art College and the Odessa Art School between 1971 and 1979.

His paintings seem coming out of a dream. Ballerinas, elephants, giraphes, birds and gigant fruits.

As he said, his paintings are between the possible and impossible, the real and the unreal.

"reminescence of morning awakening", 2009

"balance above the waves", 2007

"fragrance of the lemon peel"

"looking in the same direction"

PHILIP EVERGOOD

Born in New York, USA, with the name of Philip Blashki.

He raised in London, UK, where he moved with his parents in 1909.

There, he studied at Eton and Cambridge Universities and later at the Slade School.

Returned to New York in 1923 and, legally, changed his name to Philip Evergood.

One year later, trying to live as a painter, he travelled to Europe and studied in Paris at the Academie Julien.

In his art is visible the influences he got from Cezanne and El Grego.

portrait painted by Raphael Soyer, 1942

"sunny side of the street", 1930

"outside the tent"

"railroad men wives"

Self-Portrait, "we are such stuff as dreams are made on", 1956

"love on the beach"

"Pittsburgh Family", 1944

"music"

"The new Lazarus", 1927

"girl and soulful cow", 1948

Self-Portrait, "in a hat smoking a cigarette", 1948

Self-Portrait at age 60, 1962

KEES VAN DONGEN

1877-1968

French painter born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

He went to France in 1905 and, as a painter, was part of the first Fauvist Group.

Van Dongen painted with strong colours with a Fauvism almost German Expressionism.

In 1912 moved to live in Montparnasse (in Paris) but, after the war, he went to study in Rotterdam where he began painting and drawing the theme prostitutes.

He also travelled to Egypt, Marroc and Spain.

"la gitana", 1907

"gypsy"

"femme fatale",  1905

"les marchandes d'herbes"

"las luchadoras de Tabarin", 1907

"chal espanol", 1913

"café Florian", Venice, 1921

"la femme aux chats", 1912