Baake, Frans. — (La Fenêtre).

One-off artist’s book consisting of 53 original watercolour drawings, titled and dated in watercolour “Frans Baake/ Texel 1999”, 1999, 53 original drawings (recto only and including 2 double-page on endpapers) on handmade paper in black watercolour by Frans Baake, some with text in French, German, Dutch or English, original boards covered with blue handmade paper, quarto (28 x 24,2 cm.). = During his travels, Frans Baake makes sketches, photos and notes. The journey is then translated into a work of art, namely an artist's book, which he publishes himself in a small edition. In artists' books, the image usually dominates. The countless artist books that Baake has made are full of photos, woodcuts, linocuts, screenprints, collages and texts. The books are not literally about his travels and are therefore not comparable to the way we make our photo album or diary after a holiday. Baake’s way of working is similar in general: he prepares for his voyage, at the actual trip he will make drawings, writings, photographs; in his studio back home these together with his thoughts and ideas will be transformed into books, prints, sketches, portfolios, articles.