Naked Tree, Kinke Kooi, 1991

acrylic and pencil on paper, h 42cm × w 30cm More details
© Kinke Kooi

Kooi’s Naked Tree is the earliest work in the group of drawings that the Rijksprentenkabinet recently acquired from the artist. Her preference for depicting human shapes in non-human beings is immediately apparent. A stomach, buttocks, and breasts can be discerned in the gnarled tree trunk. This fascination continues to inform her drawings, although it seems to have gradually shifted toward the internal human body.