Mid-20th Century Belgian Patient / Mining Village - Industrial Memory / Signed Decuem

MID-20th CENTURY BELGIAN SCHOOL
DECUEM (signed lower right)
MINING VILLAGE - INDUSTRIAL MEMORY

Beautiful oil on canvas aptly and sensitively illustrating theuniverse of Belgium's working-class towns, at the heart of the great coal-mining basins.

In the foreground, a row of modest houses with pale facades and weathered roofs evokes the typical dwelling of miners. In the background, industrial structures, headframes and smoking chimneys rise in a slightly veiled atmosphere, recalling the intense activity of the coal mines that shaped an entire region.

The artist, signed DECUEM, captures much more than a landscape here:he restores a true testimony to a world that has now disappeared, imbued with collective memory and profound humanity.The free brushstrokes, subtle palette of muted tones and balanced composition give the whole a great evocative force, between realism and poetry.

This work is part of that pictorial tradition attached to the representation of the working-class world.

77 x 58 cm (unframed)
90 x 70 cm (framed)
Excellent condition