In her short life, Ilse D’Hollander (1968–1997) created an intelligent, sensual and highly resonant body of work, drawing upon her impressions and experience of place, particularly the Flemish countryside where she spent the last, highly productive years of her life, to produce paintings and works on paper that reveal a masterful command of graphic and painterly touch. D’Hollander’s works on cardboard, such as Untitled, 1990–1991, possess a markedly different character to her canvases. The writer, critic and Senior Consulting Curator at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, David Anfam, writes: ‘The extraordinary mixed media studies on cardboard project an almost manic energy. Greens, blues, deep red and other vivid tints clash and commingle in lapidary facets, by turns glinting and sombre, that bear a resemblance to landscapes by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.’

Ilse D’Hollander was born in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, in 1968. During her lifetime, a solo exhibition was held at In Den Bouw, Kalken, in 1996. Posthumous significant exhibitions have been held at FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; M Museum, Leuven, Belgium; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium. Her work is in numerous institutional and private collections, including FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium and SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA, among others.