Intermale Amsterdam: International Gay Bookstore, Male Art Gallery & Coffeeshop
Nigel Kent42cm x 59cm. Two-colour poster.
Early 1980s Amsterdam gay bookshop poster, featuring a leather and denim homoerotic drawing by Nigel Kent (1933-2017). Born in Australia, Kent studied art in Sydney, moved to London in 1959, and settled in Amsterdam in 1973, where he met Rob Meijer and encouraged him to make leatherwear, the beginnings of RoB. Inspired by Tom of Finland, Kent took up drawing, and his first exhibition, at the opening of Meijer’s RoB gallery in 1978, showed his work alongside Tom’s. No works by Kent have been located in Australian public collection catalogues; the National Library of Australia records a biographical cuttings file under his name.
Some light creasing. Very Good Condition.
AU$300