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Girl With Flowered Hat
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Roy Lichtenstein
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
50 x 40 cm | 20 x 16 in
2026 Click here to view the auction
Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat (1963) is a Pop Art reimagining of Pablo Picasso’s portrait of his lover and muse, Dora Maar.
Lichtenstein replaced Picasso’s moody, complex palette, dark hair, and expressive brushstrokes with his signature primary colors and flat planes, transforming Dora Maar into a bright-yellow-haired, blue-eyed American comic-strip archetype.
Through this radical adaptation, Lichtenstein comments on how consumer culture consumes art, illustrating how mass media demands everything—even high-art tragedy—to be packaged into something clean, standardized, cheerful, and ready to sell.
This painting jokingly tests that exact theory: if you add a beautiful woman to a piece of high art, will it sell faster?
All the best, Gerard
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Security Camera 54
painting of a cctv surveillance camera against a blue sky
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 Click here to view the auction
Number 54 in the series of cctv surveillance cameras. I consider surveillance cameras a symbol of our time. To me, they represent an increasingly totalitarian society and diminishing freedom and privacy.
All the best, Gerard
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Veluti In Speculum
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Hans Hofmann
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 Click here to view the auction
This piece shows a woman viewing Veluti in Speculum, a 1962 painting by German-American artist Hans Hofmann. The Latin title translates to 'As in a Mirror,' reflecting both the visual and philosophical essence of Hofmann’s famous 'push and pull' theory.
By using bright, contrasting geometric blocks of color, Hofmann creates a mirror-like illusion of deep, pulsating, three-dimensional space on a flat canvas.
Ultimately, the painting functions as a mirror that reflects inner emotional energy rather than a literal, representational image.
All the best, Gerard
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Homage To The Square
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Josef Albers
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
30 x 30 cm | 12 x 12 in
2026 SOLD
The woman in my painting is enjoying Josef Albers' Homage to the Square, a series of over 1,000 paintings produced between 1950 and 1976. It is a visual and philosophical study of color relativity, demonstrating that we never perceive a color in isolation, but rather how it reacts to and is transformed by its neighbors.
Albers was less interested in expressing personal emotion and more interested in teaching the viewer how to see. The art is not just the physical object; it is the active mental and visual experience happening in the viewer's eye—just as it is for the viewer in this painting.
All the best, Gerard
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Marilyn
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Andy Warhol
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
90 x 60 cm | 35.5 x 24 in
2026 SOLD
This painting observes a woman engaged with Andy Warhol’s iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe.
Andy Warhol began creating the portraits just days after her death in 1962. The portraits explore themes of celebrity obsession, mass production, consumerism, and mortality. The repetition highlights both her omnipresence in the media, while the bright, saturated colors celebrate her glamour and iconic beauty.
They say that one picture is worth a thousand words, but to me Warhol showed that a thousand images might say nothing at all. By capturing a real person viewing this portrait, I tried to bring back the human element.
All the best, Gerard
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Security Camera 53
painting of a cctv surveillance camera against a blue sky
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 Click here to acquire
Number 53 in the series of cctv surveillance cameras. I consider surveillance cameras a symbol of our time. To me, they represent an increasingly totalitarian society and diminishing freedom and privacy.
All the best, Gerard
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Self Portrait Frank Auerbach
painting of a man enjoying a self portrait by Frank Auerbach
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 Click here to acquire
This 20 x 20 cm piece shows a man enjoying a self portrait by Frank Auerbach. His self portraits are a profound, raw exploration of identity, aging, and the physical passage of time through a rigorous 'poetics of destruction' and reconstruction. Auerbach builds his images through a fierce cycle of drawing, erasing, and redrawing. Rather than seeking a flattering likeness, identity is shown as dynamic and ever-evolving rather than static.
By placing an observer in front of this intense, heavily textured image, my painting introduces a space of quiet stillness amidst Auerbach's frantic energy. The focused presence of the viewer suggests that we can always find a moment of inner clarity and enduring peace within the chaos. All the best, Gerard
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Scrolling
painting of a woman enjoying a Christopher Wool inspired painting of the prhase 'Scrolling'
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
30 x 30 cm | 12 x 12 in
2026 Click here to acquire
The painting within my painting pays direct homage to Christopher Wool’s iconic text style, mimicking his signature typography and monochrome aesthetic. Wool used out-of-context phrases to disrupt how we read and look at art. Here, I use that same lettering to spotlight a distinct modern obsession: endlessly scrolling on the internet.
All the best, Gerard
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Space Invaders
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Invader
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
40 x 20 cm | 16 x 8 in
2026 SOLD
The artwork within my painting pays homage to the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders, where players control a laser cannon to destroy waves of descending alien creatures.
Street artist Invader’s goal was to 'free' these pixelated aliens from the digital confines of computer screens and place them into the physical, three-dimensional world. But now they're caught inside a museum.
All the best, Gerard
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Red On Red
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Mark Rothko
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
50 x 40 cm | 20 x 16 in
2026 Click here to acquire
In my work, I love to capture the quiet moments of people in museums, entirely lost in the act of looking. This painting captures a viewer lost in Mark Rothko's Red On Red.
Rothko painted on massive vertical canvases, these works were meant to engulf the viewer. Rothko preferred dim lighting and close viewing distances so the color fields would completely dominate the spectator's field of vision and trigger a transcendent, almost religious experience.
All the best, Gerard
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Woman Sitting Near A Window
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Picasso
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 Click here to acquire
Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting 'Femme Assise Près d’Une Fenêtre' depicts his young mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter. Picasso painted it during what art historians call his annus mirabilis or year of wonders. Marie-Thérèse inspired a flood of bright, curvilinear, and euphoric masterpieces.
Unlike earlier, more passive reclining nudes, Marie-Thérèse is portrayed upright, clothed, and statuesque. Her calm, commanding presence and luminous, marble-like head transform her into a modern-day goddess or idol ruling over the artist.
The window acts as a threshold between the private, intimate world of their secret love affair and the outside reality. It frames her as both an object of devotion and a figure in complete control of the space.
All the best, Gerard
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Bird
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Bart van der Leck
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 SOLD
Within this work of art by Van der Leck, a bird is broken down into horizontal, vertical, and diagonal black lines, accompanied by floating planes of color. This represents a quest for the universal essence of the visible world—the ultimate reality, so to speak. By capturing a viewer observing this abstraction, I bring the visible world back into the composition, bringing the artistic cycle full circle.
All the best, Gerard
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Crosstown
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Franz Kline
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 Click here to acquire
The woman in this painting is enjoying a painting by Franz Kline from 1955. Crosstown derives its meaning not from depicting a literal street map, but from capturing the raw visual architecture, dynamic movement, and kinetic energy of an urban environment.
Kline famously stated that he did not paint specific physical objects or scenes, but rather the internal feelings and sensory reactions aroused in him by living and looking out at the city. By placing a viewer in front of his work I'm basically doing the same thing in return.
All the best, Gerard
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Five Color Frame
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Robert Mangold
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 Click here to acquire
The man in my painting is enjoying a painting by Robert Mangold from 1985. His Five Color Frame explores the tension between the canvas as a flat fragment and its active relationship with the empty wall behind it, questioning how separate parts "fit or don't really fit together".
By introducing a human element into this minimalist piece, I wanted to bridge the artwork's rigid, hard-edged boundaries and that of the living world.
All the best, Gerard
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De Storm (The Tempest)
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Bart van der Leck
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
40 x 20 cm | 16 x 8 in
2026 SOLD
The man in my painting is enjoying a painting by Bart van der Leck. His 1916 painting De Storm (The Tempest or The Storm), uses radical abstraction, elementary shapes, and primary colors to capture the essence and raw, stirred emotion of a gale-force coastal storm rather than a detailed realistic scene.
All the best, Gerard
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Marilyn
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Andy Warhol
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
25 x 25 cm | 10 x 10 in
2026 SOLD
This piece originally began life as a commissioned work for an art collector in Italy, but I misunderstood the request and painted the wrong Marilyn entirely.
While I immediately created a new, correct version for the now very happy Italian collector, this initial painting is still available. I hope it finds a great home after all.
All the best, Gerard
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Bomb Hugger
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Banksy
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 Click here to acquire
The man in this painting is enjoying Banksy’s Bomb Love (also known as Bomb Hugger). Originally conceived as a powerful critique of state-sponsored violence, the iconic street piece shows a young girl tenderly embracing a massive aerial missile as if it were a cherished teddy bear.
The subject engages with the visual contrast between childhood innocence and mechanized destruction. Ultimately, the artwork's message is that universal compassion and love hold the power to disarm hostility.
If you look closely on the second picture you see my painting Hope hanging right next to it in Galerie Coste in Deauville, France, 2018. On the right you see a glimpse of a soup can by Andy Warhol. Not bad company!
All the best, Gerard
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Whaam!
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Roy Lichtenstein
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
90 x 60 cm | 35.5 x 24 in
2026 Click here to acquire
Standing in front of Roy Lichtenstein’s 'Whaam!', you are hit with a massive, loud wave of comic-book energy. I love the sharp contrast between that explosive background and the quiet presence of a real person just taking it all in.
Ultimately, to me the painting is about the idea of staying completely calm while the world around you explodes.
All the best, Gerard
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Space Invaders
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Space Invader
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 SOLD
The man on my painting is enjoying a painting of a Space Invader from the 1980s video game.
All the best, Gerard
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Clown
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Kaws
G. Boersma
acrylic on panel
20 x 20 cm | 8 x 8 in
2026 SOLD
In this painting you see a man admiring a contemporary piece by the artist Kaws. The featured artwork spotlights his renowned "Companion" character—a clown-like figure heavily influenced by vintage animation stylistic elements—sitting with its white-gloved hands pulled over its face.
Kaws routinely utilizes this distinctive, shielding posture across his work to channel a deep sense of modern isolation, vulnerability, and internal struggle. Mixing this exaggerated cartoon sorrow with a real man's quiet reflection creates a captivating space where two worlds meet.
All the best, Gerard
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