Jean Vanden Eeckhoudt (1875-1946) Mixed Race Woman With Oranges 1924. Detroy, Belgium, Crozant

Superb and large oil on canvas by Jean Vanden Eeckhoudt (1875-1946) representing a young and pretty mixed-race woman with a tray of oranges, signed with his monogram and dated 24 for 1924 at the bottom left. Size of the painting alone without frame: 65x50cm This is therefore a magnificent and quite rare composition with a Fauvist tendency by Jean Van den Eeckhoudt who paints here a young mixed-race or North African woman carrying a tray of oranges, made in 1924. He uses here his Fauvist touch, stylized by large flat tints and a lively and colorful palette dominated by white, blue, brown, orange, yellow etc... Very beautiful painting where the artist perfectly represents the expressions of this young woman, although better known for his landscapes or natures Fauvist doors, Van Den Eeckoudt as a very great painter was also capable of sumptuous portraits or genre scenes. A great Belgian pointillist and Fauvist painter, Jean Vanden Eeckhoudt is also well known to fans of Léon Detroy and lovers of the Crozant school and especially of Gargilesse, because he was one of Detroy's best friends, they met on the French Riviera (He notably produced a rather famous portrait of Fifi, Detroy's wife, see last photo); Jean Vanden Eeckhoudt was also the father of Zoum Walter (1902-1974), also a very well-known painter in Gargilesse. Jean Vanden Eeckhoudt, known as Vanden, born in Brussels in 1875, died and buried in Bourgeois, Rixensart in 1946, is a Belgian painter. Jean Vanden Eeckhoudt is the nephew and stepson of Isidore Verheyden, member of the Group of XX founded by Octave Maus. Through him, he discovered the artistic life of the late 19th century and met Théo van Rysselberghe, one of the main representatives of pointillism in Belgium, with whom he became friends. The latter, feeling that he was dying, entrusted him with the task of finishing in his place three large paintings intended to complete a vast decorative ensemble of the Château du Pachy in Morlanwelz, which had been commissioned from him by the patron Lucien Guinotte, paintings of which two motifs were in the home of the French writer Roger Martin du Gard. Despite increasingly divergent conceptions in the pictorial field, Van Rysselberghe had a deep admiration for the eloquent plastic vocabulary of the art of Vanden Eeckhoudt, to whom he also bequeathed all his painting materials. Vanden Eeckhoudt began to exhibit with the main Belgian painters (Émile Claus, James Ensor, Fernand Khnopff...) in 1905 at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Ostend. Subsequently, he frequented Henri Matisse, André Gide and Dorothy Bussy and lived in the south of France. His style evolved from post-impressionism to fauvism before returning to more realism. His rating is quite important, with results at + 15000 €. This canvas is in its original condition, rather very good, some slight losses on the periphery. Delivered in a modern gilded frame in average condition Work guaranteed authentic