Yetty
Exciting non-fiction work on the life of the author's mother. A beautiful museum quality coffee table art book -- an ode from a beloved son to a beloved mother. Yetty passed at the age of 88. She was a philosopher artist -- a serious artist, who, while alive, expressed herself largely in oils and bronzes. Yetty -- the book -- tells the story of a young girl emigrated from the Diamond District in Antwerp, just ten days ahead of the Nazi juggernaut, to a corner apartment looking out upon New York City's Central Park and, then onto San Antonio, Texas, when cowboys still wore cowboy boots and where a Belgian accent never failed to daze and amaze. Influenced by the likes of Paul Cezanne and Edvard Munch, Yetty was painting in oils and exhibiting as early as thirteen years of age.
Yetty's legacy is is to be found in this book -- a treasure house gateway to one hundred fifty beautifully photographed canvasses (reminds of the quality of Rizzoli) -- largely unseen and unknown outside of the book.