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| Karin Bos, Give me your toys!, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2005, Collection Delta LLoyd, Amsterdam |
This is just a random selection which shows that childhood plays an important role in my work.
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| Karin Bos, The Boxer, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2005, private collection, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Untitled, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2009, private collection, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Sleeping beauty, watercolor on paper, 2010 |
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| Karin Bos, Demolition girl, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2010, private collection, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Going underground 3, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2010, private collection, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Marching girls 2, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2010, private collection, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Marching girls, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2010, private collection, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Tree girl, acrylics on paper, 35 x 45 cm, 2011 |
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| Karin Bos, Circle, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2011, Collection CBK Groningen |
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| Karin Bos, Slightly creepy camping site 7, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2011, collection DELA |
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| Karin Bos, Snow storm 2, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2011, private collection, the Netherlands |
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Karin Bos, Shifting view 2, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2011
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020 |
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Karin Bos, The lake, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2011
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018 |
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| Karin Bos, Queensday Fairyqueen, watercolor on paper, 102 x 66 cm, 2012 |
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| The Frog, watercolor on paper, 38 x 28 cm, 2012, private collection the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Shelter, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2012 |
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| Karin Bos, Copycat girl, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2004, private collection the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Testosteron rules!, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2004, private collection the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Rule #2: Never listen to grown-ups, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2004 |
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| Karin Bos, Muurtje, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2006 |
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| Karin Bos, Driving by 3, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2006 |
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| Karin Bos, Doll abuse, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 102 x 66 cm, 2006, collection Teylers Museum Haarlem, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Kring, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2006, private collection the Netherlands |
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Karin Bos, Boxer, pencil on paper, 25 x 20 cm, 2006, private collection the Netherlands
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| Karin Bos, 3 girls dancing on a roof, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2005 |
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Karin Bos, Boyscouts, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2007
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018 |
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| Karin Bos, Spyglasses 2, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2007, collection Akzo Nobel |
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| Karin Bos, Waitingroom, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2007 |
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| Karin Bos, Slightly creepy camping site 5, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2008 |
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| Karin Bos, Snow storm, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2008 |
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Karin Bos, Spyglasses 3, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2008
collection CODA Museum |
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| Karin Bos, Toe fiddler, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2008 |
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| Karin Bos, untitled (Spy girls), screenprint, watercolour, pencil on paper, 25 x 20 cm, 2008 |
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Karin Bos, Flower girl, pencil on paper, 34 x 20 cm, 2012, private collection, the Netherlands
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| Karin Bos, The Lab, aquarel, gouache en houtskool op papier, 66 x 102 cm, 2012 |
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| Karin Bos, Snowstorm, potlood, pastel en gouache op papier, 35 x 42 cm, 2012 |
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Karin Bos, Flower girl, olieverf op doek, 100 x 70 cm, 2013
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020, private collection, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, 66 x 102 cm, 2013. On view at Museum Het Domein, Sittard in 2014 |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 2, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, 66 x 102 cm, 2013. On view at Museum Het Domein, Sittard in 2014 |
Recently my parents cleaned up their attic and gave me their slide files. I wondered what to do with this huge archive of my childhood. The two watercolours titled Childhood Scenes are the result. It shows my parents, my younger sister and I, back in the sixties and seventies.
Here are some details:
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, here's my little sister and I in the snow. | |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, I'm playing on the beach. |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 2, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, I'm climbing a tree. |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, my mother and I. |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 2, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, my father and I. |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 2, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, my father and I. |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, my mother, my little sister and I walking in the woods. |
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| Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, this is my little sister showing her pet which was an albino guinea pig. |
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| Karin Bos, Gebroken Wit series, gouache on paper, 24 x 32 cm each, 2014 |
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| Karin Bos, The Collector, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2015, collection DELA |
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Karin Bos, Ghost town, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2015
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020 |
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| Karin Bos, Watercrusher, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2014, private collection, the Netherlands |
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| Karin Bos, Safe Haven, watercolour on paper, 66 x 102 cm, 2011 |
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Karin Bos, Heksenkring, ceramics / oil on canvas, 130 x 150 cm, 2007
on view at 'She Me' show at Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, 2011 |
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Karin Bos, Fairyqueen 2, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2005
on view at 'She Me' show at Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, 2011 |
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| Karin Bos, Dress code, screenprint on paper, 56 x 76 cm, 2001 |
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| Karin Bos, Spygirls and Boyscouts, screenprint /watercolour on silk, 17 x 17 cm, 2009 |
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| Karin Bos, Doll abuse 2, gouache and pencil on paper, 40 x 30 cm incl frame, 2016 |
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Karin Bos, Red Army 2, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2016
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020
Collection Museum CAB, Burgos, Spain |
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Karin Bos, Red Army, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2015
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020
private collection, The Netherlands |
