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With Vincent Lécuyer, Paris, 2017.

Born in 1907 in Bandung, Indonesia, Doeve began to draw when he was very young and received his first commission at the age of sixteen, from the cinema in his home town. At the age of twenty he decided to study at the agricultural college in Wageningen, in Holland, where he settled permanently. Although he never had any formal artistic training, he was active as a painter, draftsman, engraver and illustrator, as well as a designer of banknotes and theatre sets.

Doeve’s work as a painter, in which he was encouraged by contemporaries, notably Raoul Hynckes, dates mainly from after 1940. He subsequently receive public commissions for the production of monumental works as well as working for private clients.

Mount Bromo, East Java  is one of the artist’s most personal works, a reminiscence of one of the magnificent and awe-inspiring views he experienced during his childhood.