A Collection of 14 Original Ink Drawings & Sketches By This Dutch Born Artist and Jazz Musician Who Has Resided in Ireland for Many Years

This collection consists of 14 drawings/sketches on paper measuring 19 x 13 cms (7.5 x 5.25 inches). While they are not signed by Sluis they are dated in his hand April 1968 on reverse. A small archive of this artist's early work. Piet Sluis (1929-2008) was born in Holland in 1929. He came to Ireland in the mid 1950's. He is regarded by many as Ireland's own representative of the COBRA Movement. This movement was an effort to offer an alternative to the New York abstract expressionist artists of the 1950's. Sluis brought the influence of this post war Dutch movement to Ireland. He began to make a mark in the Dublin art galleries in the 1960's - a period when he pursued his interest in graphic art, typography & calligraphy. His other passion is jazz music & many of his images reflect this. He has exhibited at the Project Gallery, Bank of Ireland Exhibition Centre, Caldwell Galleries, Oisin Gallery and has undertaken commercial art work for The Irish Heart Foundation, Guinness Peat Aviation, Guinness, ESB and numerous others. After the death of his wife he lost some of his will to live and lived a rather bohemian existence in and around Blackrock, Co. Dublin up to his death in 2008.…