Modern Painting Beautiful Portrait Of Young Woman Expressionist 1944 Signed Oil

A very beautiful three-quarter portrait of a young woman with a clear and focused gaze, painted in 1944.

The paste is dense and nervous, applied in broad, broken touches that build the volumes in planes, with subtle passages of flesh between pinks, ochres and greens. The face is modeled with real sureness of drawing, the reliefs are caught in a lateral light that catches the impasto, the deep red mouth brings the accent of the painting.
The style evokes modern European realism of the 1930s-40s, halfway between a late post-impressionism and a more expressionist sensibility specific to the schools of the North. On the back, a handwritten note dated June 1944 and a JJ ten Kate studio stamp confirm the period and place the work in the orbit of a painter with a strong personality, master of material and modeling. Good general condition of the pictorial layer, healthy varnish. Old gilt frame with openwork decoration in good decorative condition with minor wear