Tactile Drawing - Hurkende vrouw

Description and Manual

Pieter Ouborg Hurkende vrouw circa 1930 Brush on paper 63 by 83 cm Tactile drawing

Here you can remove the tactile drawing from the wall and place it on the lectern on the right.

This is a translation of a brush-drawn scene consisting of black ink on beige paper. The work is called "Squatting Woman."

The overall image is composed of large, quick and elegant lines. Comparable to the grace of a Chinese character.

The woman is seated on her left lower leg and has her right knee raised. Her right elbow rests on her right knee. The hand of her left arm rests on the floor to her left.

Her oval, stylized head tilted sideways. She seems introverted, staring ahead, her gaze slightly lowered.

She wears indistinct clothes. She has knotted a cloth under her armpits that falls smoothly around her body. The folds are depicted in parallel lines with a brush.

Ouborg made this drawing during his stay in the then Dutch East Indies, where he portrayed many Indonesian women.

Text by Fleur Brom, museum teacher at the Van Abbemuseum.