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[Seated Woman]
Gerard Petrus Fieret Dutch
Not on view
Born in The Hague, Gerard Petrus Fieret was interned in a German hard labor camp during World War II. A decade later, he became a painter, mostly of portraits in gouache and charcoal; in 1956 he began making photographs. Fieret was a loner who lived a turbulent and paranoid existence, believing other artists were stealing his ideas and copying his style. To protect his work, he branded the surfaces of his prints with his name and address using a rubber stamp and, at times, with large flourishing ink signatures. This obsessive marking added unconventional meaning to the work—a kind of authorial pathos doused with eroticism.
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![[Seated Woman], Gerard Petrus Fieret (Dutch, 1924–2009), Gelatin silver print](/Rodan/dist/svg/rolling-0.9s-30px.svg)
