A superb oil on canvas by the Belgian traveller painter Paul Daxhelet.
Lively and very colorful, this scene depicts the market in Benares, India.
You can see women dressed in brightly colored saris.
A flower and incense vendor, intended for religious rituals. A man with a long white beard, probably a sadhu.
Merchant stalls in the background.
In the background dominates the sacred Kashi Vishwanath temple dedicated to Shiva.
Altogether, it forms a beautiful representation of the Benares market.
The work is in excellent condition, I believe it dates from the 1960s.
It is sold with a golden frame, which perfectly enhances it.
It is signed at the bottom right "P. Daxhelet."
Titled on the back: "Benares Market."
Paul Daxhelet's Africanist works are seen on the market, but those related to India are much rarer.
Canvas dimensions: 60 x 50 cm
Frame dimensions: 79 x 69 cm
Paul Daxhelet (1905-1993)
Paul Alfred Marie Daxhelet, born November 25, 1905, in Liège, son of Paul Joseph Hubert Daxhelet and Louise Marie Céline Crahay, and died October 3, 1993, in Liège, was a Belgian painter and engraver.
Trained at the Liège Academy of Fine Arts, Paul Daxhelet developed in the 1930s a body of work dominated by sports themes, notably boxing, which the painter also practiced. After World War II, Daxhelet became the painter of colonial exotica; he brought back sketches and drawings from his many travels to the Belgian Congo, then to India, the Far East, South America, Polynesia, and Senegal, from which he derived, in multiple variations, paintings where color and movement reign.
He is buried in the Robermont Cemetery in Liège.
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