LOUISE BOURGEOIS Paris 1911 - New York 2010 Untitled - 1949 Ink on paper - 26,2 x 18 cm Signed and dated lower left Bourgeois, NY, 49 Published: "Ceci n’est pas un dessin: Louise Bourgeois, Jan Fabre, Raimund von Luckwald, Paul de Reus, Hank Visch" Bloom Gallery, Anette Gelink, Amsterdam, 1994 Exhibited: Bloom Gallery, Anette Gelink, Amsterdam, 22 October - 26 November 1994 The journeys of an artist The Berend Hoekstra Collection "For me, primitive means basic, primary, brutal, essential... Essential to life, essential to art, essential to creating. For me, primitive is a compliment." Berend Hoekstra in Conru, "the eye of the Moko", Tribal 3, summer 2003. Berend Hoekstra is a well-known Dutch artist residing in Brussels. Born in Roosendaal in 1958. His paintings and sculpture are extremely powerful. At the age of 12, while visiting the satellite of the Leiden Museum in Breda, he entered in contact for thefi rst time with Oceanic Art. As a young artist in Amsterdam he finally met Loed and Mia van Bussel, who were specialisst in Oceanic art and had an amazing collection. In those early days, he bought from them the incredible New Ireland ancestor head (lot 24). So early on, he had the chance to acquire important pieces wich today, would be difficult to find.