Little notebooks were Jef Verheyen’s companions wherever he went: at various studios, during exhibitions, and on trips to Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and South America. They house long-winded ramblings, stream of consciousness, and accounts of encounters and events. And so, these booklets help reveal the artist’s growing network. But his other sketchbooks are littered and brimming with sketches and preliminary studies, with Verheyen’s notes in the margins to inform and enlighten.
>Jef Verheyen, Frank Philippi, Artist's scrapbook (Portfolio), 1948-1959.Book, collage.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1956-1961.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Copies taken from Notebook 1957-1959, 1957-1959.Text, ink on paper (copies), 4 sides.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1957.Book, pencil and ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, Mario Bionda, Roberto Crippa, Journal with a.o. notes about the visit of Jef Verheyen to the studio of Lucio Fontana (February 1958), 1957-1959.Text, notebook, mixed media, 19,5 x 13,6 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Jozef Peeters, Englebert Van Anderlecht, Notebook, 1958-1961.Book.
>Notebook 'Contre le rien Pour le tout', 1959-1960.Book, ink in notebook, 22,5 x 15,5 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Jozef Peeters, (Farewell) Letter from Jef Verheyen to Jozef Peeters (September 1960), 1960.Letter, ink in notebook.
>Galerie Bernard, Englebert Van Anderlecht, Jef Verheyen, Un ami peintre comme lui, 1961.Letter, ink in notebook, 2 sides.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1961.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1962.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1962.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1964.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook 'De vreemdelingen en de uitverkorenen. Gedachten over het waarom', 1968.Book, ink on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Ivo Michiels, Notebook 'Nog uit te voeren werken', 1970-1973.Book, pencil and ink on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Sketchbook for 'Boek 40', 1972.Book, ink on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1973.Book, pencil on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, Notebook, 1973.Book, pencil and ink on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Carlo Van den Bossche, Notebook 'Opgedragen in herinnering aan meester Carlo Van Den Bosch', 1974-1975.Book, pencil on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook 'Hommage aan Leonardo da Vinci', 1974.Book, pencil on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1975.Book, pencil on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook 'La doute est ma seule vérité', 1975.Book, pencil on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Gallery New Selection, Notebook for '6 Variaties op een schema', 1976.Book, pencil on paper, A4.
>Roger Meuleman, Jef Verheyen, Notebook for 'Nachtschilderijen' , 1976.Book, pencil on paper, 34 pages.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook 'Venetië', 1976-1977.Book, notebook, mixed media, 31,8 x 23,6 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Jos Macken, Kanno, Jean F. Buyck, Notebook 'Pasen 1978 Ten Bosch', 1978.Book, pencil on paper, 3 pages.
>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Notebook, 1978-1981.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook 'Het spiegelbeeld van de hersenen of iets over het ontstaan van beelden in het voorstellingsvermogen.', 1979.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook over Dia en het Spiegelbeeld, 1979.Text, ink on paper, 14 pages.
>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Erker Galerie, Stichting Veranneman, Notebook, 1979-1982.Book, pencil on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1980.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1980.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Erker Press, Erker Galerie, Travel diary (Sankt Gallen, Vienna, Paris, Marseilles, Soll, Italy), 1981-1984.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1982-1983.Book, ink on paper, 50 pages.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook, 1982.Book, ink on paper, 46 pages.
>Jef Verheyen, Dani Franque, Hugues C. Pernath, Leon In den Kleef, Hermann Goepfert, Notebook, 1983.Book, ink on paper, 38 pages.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook '5 juni 1983', 1983.Text, pencil on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Scrapbook.Book, collage.
>Jef Verheyen, Outtakes from notebook.Text, ink on paper, 2 sides.