The Dutch artist Jetty Homan established herself in her younger years as a ballet dancer. After 1950 she began a career as a largely self-taught sculptor. At first she began working in ceramics and later she focussed primarily on making abstract bronze sculptures.
These sculptures are typical of her interest in an organic movement articulated in form and material. One is mounted to a granite block base and the other on a teak wood base. (Unsigned as was normal for her work). The sculpture on the left is a maquette for a larger work on public display in the Dutch town of Arnhem.
A rare chair made after a commission from Bas van Pelt / The Hague. Circa 1953 for the youth hostel at Ockenberg-Kijckduin in The Netherlands.
This chair’s rudimentary but simple form and functional design typifies the spirit of the utilitarian design movement that surrounded the WWII period in Europe.