Francine Somers (1923-2022). " The Toilet". Around 1950.

Size, 88 x 70 x 3.5cm. Signed F.Somers at the top right.
Francine Somers(1923-2022).
She was born in 1923 in Ghent (Belgium).
Painter, designer, medalist, engraver, goldsmith and sculptor.
Somers owes his first training to his goldsmith jeweler father who taught him drawing. From the age of thirteen, she studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent where she received the gold medal before continuing studies in sculpture at the Academy of Etterbeek, the art of the lower relief in Louvain and carving at the school of arts and crafts in Brussels.
She has held numerous exhibitions both in Belgium and in the Congo (Léopoldville, Bukavu and Goma). During the Universal Exhibition of 1958 in Brussels, she produced a large fresco in the Congo pavilion.
She also participates in international medal exhibitions in Paris, Rome, Vienna, The Hague and Athens.
She finally produced a series of Solidarity stamps in 1966-1967 for the Belgian postal administration.