ABOUT
Willem Adriaan Blom (Wim Blom) was born in Germiston, South Africa on the 22nd of February 1927. (1927-2021)
Wim received his Fine Arts MA (1951) degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and did post-graduate work at the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and at the University of Perugia, Italy. Wim Blom taught at the University of the Witwatersrand and at the
Johannesburg School of Art.
Trained as an art historian he held the post of Research Curator at the National Gallery of Canada and subsequently that of Curatorial
Administrator.
After leaving the museum world Wim Blom dedicated himself exclusively to painting and for a number of years he lived in Italy and Spain.
Wim was a devoted traveller and an inveterate reader in several languages. (English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Afrikaans, French and
Portuguese.
His work is represented in public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the South African National Gallery in numerous
corporate and private collections in Canada, France, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, South
Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S.A. Wim has exhibited internationally and exhibited regularly in Johannesburg, London, England,
Florence, Naples, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver.
Sheep bell (Spain) 2012 Egg tempera on paper 31 x 37 cm framed-
Still life with Nijmegen box 2007 oil on canvas 16” x 24” framed
Yellow shelf with plate and striped box 2019 oil on canvas 43 x 43 cm Wim Bloms last painting.
Box with apples 2018 oil on canvas 30 x 56 cm framed-
Storm over Venice 2008 Collage 15 x 14 cm - Frame size 54 x 47 cm framed-AVAILABLE
Receipt for reparations 1802 2006 Collage 17 x 18 cm - frame size 50 x 64 cm framed-AVAILABLE
Torso 1985 pencil on paper 15 x 15 cm 6”x6” in framed-AVAILABLE
African woman 1945 crayon on paper 18x 21 cm 10” x 12” in framed-AVAILABLE
Folded hanging cloth 1989 pencil on paper 18 x 19 cm framed- AVAILABLE
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1773 2006 collage 15 x 18 cm Frame size 38 x 34 cm framed- AVAILABLE
Classical-remnant-2006-Collage-21.5-x-17.5-cm- AVAILABLE
A dry fig tree No. 2 2010 Graphite on paper prepared with gouache 20.3 x 28 cm framed-AVAILABLE
Two tables with cloth 1971 pencil on paper size 38 x 41 cm framed AVAILABLE
Wim was awarded the Dante Alighieri gold medal by the Fine Arts Society of Florence.
*THE FOLLOWING WORKS BY WIM BLOM ARE AVAILABLE, ALL ARE FRAMED
Accounts-of-1855-2006-Collage-21.5-x-24-cm-AVAILABLE-
Perugia Italy May 1955 water colour painted in Perugia 1955 33 x 32cm framed-AVAILABLE
Wim Blom-Florence Italy, water colour and oil painted in Florence 1955 15" x 12 " in framed-
Two suspended leafs 1991 watercolour, ganarle and pencil 33 x 37 cm AVAILABLE
Wim Blom - Venice facade 1953 40 x 50 cm framed- AVAILABLE