JOOST SWARTE - "MET DE DEUR IN HUIS" (SET OF 3)

Shipping Costs: UK-£12.50, USA-£20, Europe-£20, Far East-£20. Joost Swarte is a Dutch cartoonist and graphic designer. He is best known for his 'ligne claire' or clear line style of drawing, and in fact coined the term. He has invented dozens of comics and characters as well as designing stamps, posters, cards, LP and CD covers. Apart from comics and graphic design, Swarte has also designed furniture, leaded and stained glass windows, murals and other objects. For his hometown Haarlem he even designed a theatre. Recently he created a pair of spectacles that allow the wearer to see the world in a more ironic way (and they really work). Joost has also created covers for RAW Magazine, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in European comic art. We are delighted that he has donated several original works to our auction. Here we have a beautiful, vintage set of three title illustrations for the column 'Met de Deur in Huis' ('Put the door in the house' - a Dutch expression which roughly equates as 'Tell it like it is') for the Dutch magazine 'Vrij Nederland' ('Free Netherlands') which was founded as an underground newspaper during the Nazi occupation and is still running today. 3 pictures. Indian Ink & coloured inks on paper. 16.5 x 14.3cm.