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Nero pen drawing with collage - In a box including artist's book

Short Stories by Marcel van Eeden, created in 2017, is a mixed media work featuring a Nero pen drawing combined with collage elements. The piece, characterized by its dark, moody tones, depicts a landscape with silhouetted trees and buildings, evoking a sense of mystery and nostalgia. The inclusion of a collage fragment—a typed auction detail dated May 25, 1910—adds a historical dimension, intertwining past events with the present artistic interpretation. Van Eeden’s style, often focused on reinterpreting images from before his birth in 1965, explores memory and narrative through the juxtaposition of text and imagery. This artwork, presented in a box alongside an artist's book, reflects his fascination with storytelling and the passing of time.

Marcel van Eeden (Netherlands, 1965) is a contemporary artist celebrated for his noir-inspired drawings. Using historical photos, texts, and documents predating his birth, he crafts narratives that blur fiction and reality. His intricate works, often executed in charcoal or pencil, explore memory, time, and storytelling.

Marcel van Eeden

Short Stories, 2017

Name: Short Stories, 2017
SKU: 14758

Form

Drawing / Watercolor

Drawing / WatercolorDrawing and watercolor are two traditional art techniques which stand alone as media, but are often used in conjunction with each other. Drawing can create the basic outlines for watercolor painting. Drawing over dried watercolor or using watercolor pencils are combined media techniques.

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Mixed Media

Mixed MediaMixed media refers to artwork that incorporates more than one medium within a single piece. Unlike multimedia art, which combines distinct forms of visual art and often includes elements like sound, video, or digital media, mixed media focuses on combining traditional art materials, such as paint, ink, and collage. Mixed media art allows artists to achieve a wide range of effects and textures by layering and blending different materials.

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I started the whole series in 1993 with the idea of doing one drawing a day.
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Marcel van Eeden is a Dutch draftsman and painter whose photo-realistic style is heavily influenced by film noir. His works are primarily monochromatic depictions of urban landscapes, nocturnal scenes, depictions of crimes and close ups of nefarious characters straight out of pulp fiction. Many of Marcel van Eeden's works are based on the visual style of the years preceding his birth year of 1965. He employs the templates of newspaper clippings, illustrations and magazines from the eras to express a bleak view of the world. Marcel van Eeden cites Edgar Degas as an influence in terms of his composition and pictorial style. The botanist Robert Walser is also a strong influence with Eeden using text from Walser's books over a series of drawings. Between the years 2001-2007 Eeden set himself the task of producing a drawing in ink and pencil on paper every day, which he simultaneously chronicled on his blog. He established a set of rules for the series, including basing each work on a found image. What resulted is a collection that in the graphic novel style which is a commentary on the way history is recorded and the fallibility of memory. (Artist website)

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