My friend will come from Bali, Indonesia to visit Amsterdam. I met him at a landscape painting course in France where i was teaching. For 25 years he was a missionary in Irian Jaya, but now he is retired, married and converted to art. He is painting about his experiences with the papoeas and the daily life in Bali. see: http://homepage.mac.com/vriesdina/PhotoAlbum2.html

I am planning to go with him to the exhibition 'Een Indische Israels' in Museum Mesdag: about the dutch impressionist Isaac Israels in Indonesie. this is one of my favourite portraits by my favourite painter: Mangkoenagoro VII, 1922

to be continued

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