Marie Cécile Thijs, born in Rotterdam in 1964, is specialised in staged photography, and
created the series Horses which are still in progress to this day.
She also made many portraits of writers, politicians, designers and artists.
Collection : the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Museum Rotterdam
Exhibition :
2016 Museum De Fundatie Zwolle | Dutch Identity | 25 Dutch Portrait Photographers
Museum aan het Vrijthof Maastricht in 2015.
Description : Influenced by the old masters in painting, M- C Thijs has portrayed the
mythical unicorn that she interpreted black .