Boon Gallery Oil On Canvas And Oil On Panel

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Edmond VERSTRAETEN (Waasmunster 1870 - Waasmunster 1956) "Riders in the Forest" Belgian School Monogram on the lower right Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm / 31.5 x 39.4 in Provenance: Private Collection, Belgium Exhibitions: Aalst Antwerp Buenos Aires Brussels Ghent Lokeren Sint-Niklaas Temse Waasmunster Literature: BÉNÉZIT, E., "Dictionnaire critique des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs", Gründ, Paris, 1999. BERKO, P. & V., "Dictionaire van Belgische en Hollandse Bloemenschilders", Grafossart, Brussels, 1995. DE BRUYN, J.-P., "De Dendermondse Schilderschool: een kunsthistorische benadering", Dendermonde, 1994. PAS, W. & G., "ARTO: Biografische Lexicon Plastische Kunst in België", De Gulden Roos, Antwerp, 2000. PIRON, P., "De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars uit de 19e en 20e eeuw", Art in Belgium, Brussels, 1999. Artist Biography: Edmond Verstraeten was a luminist and pointillist painter of portraits and still lifes, but specialized in landscapes. Although he was a student of Jean Coosemans and received advice from Franz Courtens and Jean Rosseels, he was mostly a self-taught artist. He worked in Tervuren and Genk from 1890 until 1894, but mostly in the area of the Durme near Waasmunster. Verstraeten?s first important exhibition in 1894 was very successful. He was invited to the exhibitions of 1904 and 1911 by the avant-garde group La Libre Esthétique. He travelled to Russia in 1906 where he met with the famous writer Léon Tolstoï. Verstraeten remained a Realist painter who evolved, under the influence of his artistic friend Emile Claus, toward a more personal and powerful luminist colour use.

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• Country : BELGIUM
• Designer : Edmond VERSTRAETEN