Oil on canvas. Monogrammed. Dated: 1956.

100 x 81 cm. Framed : 131 x 112 cm.

Inscribed on an adhesive label on the reverse. Profiled frame. * The painting was exhibited: 1957 in Berlin, 1958 in Peking, Shanghai and Wuhan, 1966 in Turnhout (Belgium) and in Vienna. Doubled.

* Masereel, important Belgian artist, painter, watercolorist, draughtsman, caricaturist, graphic artist, illustrator, publisher, lecturer, studied at the academy in Ghent, worked 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, catalog raisonné Vorms, oil painting no. 851.

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