Maurice Boel - Semi-figurative composition, oil on canvas, 1 - Lot 45

Maurice Boel - Semi-figurative composition, oil on canvas, 1952 Markedly impastoed oil on canvas, signed and dated "Boel 52" on the right, presenting a semi-figurative composition structured by a free drawing and thickly colored areas in yellow, black, white, pink and earth tones; the use of pictorial matter and relief gives the whole a denser, more expressive presence, characteristic of post-war modernist research; Maurice Boel, active in Ostend between the 1940s and 1960s, developed a personal pictorial language oscillating between free figuration and abstraction, influenced by European modernism and certain expressionist tendencies; the reverse of the canvas bears handwritten inscriptions mentioning the artist and his origin in Ostend, reinforcing the attribution and coherence of the work. Details: Frame size: 59 x 69 cm - View: 49 x 59 cm - Weight: 2.2 kg