Condition: in a good condition. The paper is very slightly discoloured. The pictured work is a watercolour with pencil of the Merk (Market) in Workum in the winter of the early years 1940s. The son of Jopie Huisman, Drs. YJM (Pepy) Huisman, has approved the work and a writing of this can be provided to the buyer. The frame is also original. According to Mr Pepy Huisman, Jopie used this painting to refine his virtuoso watercolour technique. The work comes from the son of a good friend of Jopie Huisman in Workum. He have it to him as a gift. The work has been privately owned and has not been on the market previously. The work has recently emerged during an appraisal day of art dealership Art Dumay in Geldrop. His works are very rarely on the market and two similar watercolours fetched 10,000 euros a piece just a few years ago. Short biography. Jotje (Jopie) Huisman (Workum, October 18, 1922 – Workum, September 29, 2000) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. Huisman kept shoes, weights, rags, dolls, in short, everything that appealed to him in one way or another. He painted them meticulously, sometimes almost like a fine painter. He became famous for it as a painter to the general public. Later he did no longer sell paintings, but gave them away to people who, according to him, deserved them. Since 1986, his paintings can be seen in the Jopie Huisman Museum. After the 1990s, meticulous works become too strenuous because of heart problems and he switches to coloured pen drawings and watercolours. Huisman painted his last canvas in March 2000. Huisman was also known for tasty and sometimes exaggerated anecdotes, some of which he wrote down. These were bundled in the booklet Jopie de Verteller in 2011. Details: the work of art is in the original gold-coloured frame with decorative ornaments. The work is framed behind museum glass. Dimensions with the frame: 31 cm x 41 cm (hxw). Dimensions without the frame: 23.5 cm x 33.5 cm (hxw). Signed: Bottom left + 1945.