This relief was owned by Schoonhoven's friend and ‘nul’ colleague Henk Peeters. Peeters used this 1964 relief to create an exhibition installation in the form of a red, white and blue Dutch flag. Therefor he mounted this relief - turned a quarter turn - in a selfmade frame, together with a red relief by Armando and a blue relief by himself and on several occasions even with an orange pennant - made with (real or plastic) oranges by Jan Henderikse. For various exhibitions Peeters used different reliefs by Armando, Schoonhoven, Henderikse and himself, for the first time in the 1980 exhibition ‘België-Nederland’ in Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts and the Rotterdam Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum (see the list of exhibitions to the left). It is evident that Schoonhoven created his relief as an individual work, originally signed and dated by the artist in 1964.

Provenance

Collection Henk Peeters, Hall, the Netherlands

Private Collection, the Netherlands

Exhibitions

1980/81, Belgium – the Netherlands: Intersections and parallels in art after 1945, BOZAR, Brussels, 1980; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1981

1993, NUL, Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn

1995, Jan J. Schoonhoven - retrospektiv, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau

1995, Nul 1960-1965, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem

1996, Truus Nienhuis, friends around Jan Schoonhoven; Armando, Henderikse, Peeters, Schoonhoven, galerie de zaal, Delft

Literature

Damsch-Wiehager, Renate, nul- Die Wirklichkeit als Kunst fundieren, Stuttgart 1993, pp. 11 (ill.), 155

Finckh, Gerhard, Jan J. Schoonhoven – retrospektiv, exh.cat.

Essen (Museum Folkwang); Maastricht (Bonnefantenmuseum); Aarau (Aargauer Kunsthaus) 1995, pp. 105, 174

Peeters, Henk a.o., Belgium – the Netherlands: Intersections and parallels in art after 1945, exh.cat. Brussels (BOZAR); Rotterdam (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) 1980/81, pp. 41 (ill. b/w),

47 (ill.)