Prentbriefkaart aan Joop Sjollema before 1936

This postcard was made by Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, it was addressed to a Mr. J. Sjollema, and was sent in 1932. I like how the artist is being all chatty and informal with Sjollema, shooting the breeze. He’s telling him about posters, directors, and apparently some problem with Antoinette, and then closes the note hoping to see Sjollema in Zeilen! I can imagine Holst choosing this card, maybe the image on the other side was of one of his works. Or perhaps he just had a stack of these old cards lying around, and was thinking of other artists that had been working with postcards at the time. It's so interesting to see how artists use these everyday forms to communicate in simple, immediate ways, while at the same time referencing the world of art, the art world, and their own work. It reminds you of an ongoing conversation between artists, a dialogue across time.