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VISIONARY REVUE PARIS - SPRING 2003

SWEET SEVENTEEN
1946
BACCHANTE
1951

The other dominant theme to be announced in
the early Hague years was the erotic female nude.
Even before he met Diana, Johfra was producing
drawings of women that betrayed (despite their
classical poses and delicate rendering) a more
definite eroticism. Such is the case with Sweet
Seventeen (1946), produced shortly before he met
Diana (in fact, the drawing is dated 24.03.1946 - one
week before their first encounter).
Throughout the Hague years, Johfra executed
the occasional canvas with more Baroque and
Mannerist themes. Some were Alpine landscapes,
others were views of Roman ruins. But a classical
nude such as Bacchante (1951) shows that, after five
years, the eroticism in his works was mounting. If
we view such a canvas as a mirror onto his
mindstuff - giving shape to the substance of his
imagination - then his dreams and visions had now
become clearly focused onto atleast one unified
shape - the erotic female nude.

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