An overview of the work

Lankouas

Kees van Willigen · 1915–1990

Date

1946

Medium

Watercolour

Size

34 x 25 cm

Lankouas is one of the roughly 15,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago, nicknamed “the Emerald Necklace” because, seen from the air, the islands resemble emeralds strung in a necklace. Lankouas is one of the smallest.

In this watercolour, green, a recurring colour in the work of Kees van Willigen, dominates. The drawing is precise: the lighthouse windows, the red details of the roof, the sky. The work belongs to his visual documentation of Indonesia.