MASEREEL, Frans(1889 Blankenberge - 1972 Avignon)

Sur la plage

Oil on wood mounted on plywood panel. Monogrammed. Dated: 1949.

45 x 55 cm. Framed : 54 x 63 cm.

Profiled frame. Vertical hairline crack in the center of one side, frame slightly damaged.

* 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 Société 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 (the responsibility for legally compliant consignment and description lies with Auktionshaus Bergmann, Erlangen), Collection Kurt Adelsberger, part 4