Ywan Cerf Large Still Life Sculpture Of A Naked Man After Ancient Roman Marble Portrait Of A Woman

Ywan CERF (1883-1963).
Antique still life.
Oil on canvas
Height: 93 cm - Width: 61 cm
signed and dated 1951 lower left.
in a 1950s frame
112 x 80 cm

Ywan Cerf (1883–1963) Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège with Adrien de Witte and Évariste Carpentier, then at the Académie Julian in Paris with Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury, Ywan Cerf developed a demanding body of work of great formal rigor. Having settled permanently in Paris after 1914, he regularly participated in the major Salons—Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon d'Automne—while remaining active on the Belgian art scene, where he received several distinctions. Whether still life, landscape, or figure, his painting is characterized by a refined composition, a sober palette, and structuring light. Each element is weighed and precisely placed, in a quest for balance and inner silence. Marked by a revisited classicism, his work combines restraint, discreet modernity, and contemplative depth. Present in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Musée de La Boverie (Liège), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Verviers, Ywan Cerf remains a singular figure, far from the spectacular, whose work continues to attract attention with its quiet, timeless strength.