oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm.

In the early 1960s Jaap Hillenius and his wife Mies de Roos (1934-2008), an artist and photographer, moved into one of the artist studio apartments on the Zomerdijkstraat in Amsterdam. A few years later he was introduced to Aldo and Hannie van Eyck, from whom he rented a studio space in the garden of their home in Loenen aan de Vecht. Aldo, Hannie and Jaap shared a mutual passion for ethnographic art and they would develop a long standing friendship and appreciation of each other's work and interests.