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L. Caruana

INTRODUCTION

When Johfra died in 1998, he left behind a large

oeuvre encompassing almost a thousand finely
detailed paintings, thousands of completed drawings,
several sketchbooks loaded with preparatory images,
and twenty volumes of diaries, written in a fine hand
from eighteen years of age to his death at the age of
seventy-eight.
Perceiving some kind of order among this
complex, organic, ever-evolving body of work is no
easy task. The artist’s life invites one possible order,
since he shared love, discovery, and the artist’s
struggle for survival first with Diana Vandenberg for
JOHFRA AT THE END OF HIS LIFE
(photo by Jesse Hayes) sixteen years, and then with Ellen Lórien for the
remainder of his life. As well, at the age of forty-four,
he left Holland and settled permanently in France.
This becomes a starting point. And indeed, the
VISIT THE AUTHOR'S WEBSITE AT: subjects in his works do begin to change, depending
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worked. But more important is a slow evolution in the
artist’s view of the world which is evident in the
artworks themselves.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE Though Johfra was capable of returning, at any
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consistency of style also persists throughout his life’s
work. His mastery of line, shading, and figure began
at an early age and remained throughout his life.

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