MASEREEL, Frans(1889 Blankenberge - 1972 Avignon)

Sur la berge

Oil on canvas. Monogrammed. Incised date: 1931.

54 x 71 cm. Framed : 71 x 89 cm.

Inscribed on the reverse, signed by the artist, dated: 1931. Profiled frame, painted dark green and gold, linen mat. Tear about 8 cm long in the middle, loss of color at the tear and laterally at the edge, frame slightly defective.

* Masereel, important Belgian artist, painter, watercolorist, draughtsman, caricaturist, graphic artist, illustrator, publisher, lecturer, studied at the academy in Ghent, active in Paris from 1910. 1915-1921 worked in Switzerland, after 1940 in Avignon and Nice. 1947-1951 Professor at the Academy in Saarbrücken, 1953 President of the Societé Internationale des Graveurs sur Bois XYLON in Zurich. Regularly represented at numerous international exhibitions, works in international museums.

Literature : De Gruyter (2015), Thieme-Becker (1930), Vollmer (1956, 1962), Piron (1989), Belgian Artist's Signatures page 300.

Provenance : * Partner auction Bergmann, Kurt Adelsberger Collection, part 2.