Théo Humblet (leuven, 1919-2006). "girls Of Joy". 1981.

Gilded wooden frame (wear from use). Frame dimensions: 27.5 x 33 cm.

Mixed media (pastel, pencil and watercolor), signed and dated 81.
Dimensions: 18 x 9.5 cm and 13 x 13 cm.
Théo Humblet (Leuven, 1919-2006).
Belgian painter and draftsman. Student at Saint-Luc in Schaerbeek and at the Louvain Academy, of which he became director from 1959 to 1979.
Prix de Rome in 1946.
Traveled to Yugoslavia, Japan, Mexico and Spain. Illustrator of literary texts and author of several graphic editions.
He reached the limits of abstraction in the second half of the 1960s, but never took the final and definitive step. The narrative elements increased significantly in his paintings.
This narrative tendency culminated in his well-known stacking constructions: single and multiple compartments, each with house horizons that together form a story," and "His figures emerge from an urban or social landscape and look ahead, astonished, overwhelmed, more dreaming than acting."
Works at the Kortrijk Museum.
Biblio PIRON.