4015
MASEREEL, Frans(1889 Blankenberge - 1972 Avignon)
Dans la cuisine
Oil on cardboard mounted on wooden frame. Monogrammed. Dated: 1944.
27 x 19 cm. Framed : 43 x 36 cm.
Signed by the artist on the reverse, dated: 1944. Mint stucco frame with linen mount.
* 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 in Switzerland, after 1940 active 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.