View Of Mons (hainaut, Belgium) - Oil On Canvas - About 1940
Artist: Peintre De L'ecole De Mons
Vue de Mons depuis les hauteurs
Huile sur toile
81 × 60 cm - 86 × 65,5 cm avec cadre
École de Mons, circa 1940-1950
From the top of a belvedere overlooking the city's rooftops, the painter embraces a vast urban panorama of Mons. The composition is organized in successive planes: in the foreground, trees with dense, luminous foliage and acidic greens; in the center, a tightly-woven network of roofs in a variety of hues - ochre, slate blue, pink, brick red, verdigris -, among which stands out the church with its tall, slender bell tower, the axial monument of the composition; in the background, the Hainaut plain opens onto the characteristic silhouettes of the slag heaps of the mining basin, witnesses to the Borinage's coal-mining past.
The palette is clean and the chromatic flat tints well-constructed, with a strong sense of architectural rhythm. The cameo treatment of the roofs in warm and cold tones reveals the influence of the post-Cezannian currents that marked Walloon painting between the wars and in the post-war period. The sober, structured style is similar to that of the painters who gravitated around the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Mons in the 1940s-1950s, an active hotbed of Hainaut painting.
Signed lower right, signature to be deciphered.
Provenance: private collection, Mons.
On reverse: canvas mounted on stretcher with central wooden rail.
Condition: good overall condition; regular age craquelure visible on reverse, with no lifting or gaps.
Frame: gilded molded wood baguette, rais-de-coeur decoration, good condition.
Work on view at the gallery (07240)
Shipping: please contact us for shipping costs in France and abroad.
Huile sur toile
81 × 60 cm - 86 × 65,5 cm avec cadre
École de Mons, circa 1940-1950
From the top of a belvedere overlooking the city's rooftops, the painter embraces a vast urban panorama of Mons. The composition is organized in successive planes: in the foreground, trees with dense, luminous foliage and acidic greens; in the center, a tightly-woven network of roofs in a variety of hues - ochre, slate blue, pink, brick red, verdigris -, among which stands out the church with its tall, slender bell tower, the axial monument of the composition; in the background, the Hainaut plain opens onto the characteristic silhouettes of the slag heaps of the mining basin, witnesses to the Borinage's coal-mining past.
The palette is clean and the chromatic flat tints well-constructed, with a strong sense of architectural rhythm. The cameo treatment of the roofs in warm and cold tones reveals the influence of the post-Cezannian currents that marked Walloon painting between the wars and in the post-war period. The sober, structured style is similar to that of the painters who gravitated around the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Mons in the 1940s-1950s, an active hotbed of Hainaut painting.
Signed lower right, signature to be deciphered.
Provenance: private collection, Mons.
On reverse: canvas mounted on stretcher with central wooden rail.
Condition: good overall condition; regular age craquelure visible on reverse, with no lifting or gaps.
Frame: gilded molded wood baguette, rais-de-coeur decoration, good condition.
Work on view at the gallery (07240)
Shipping: please contact us for shipping costs in France and abroad.
300 €
Period: 20th century
Style: Modern Art
Condition: Excellent condition
Material: Oil painting
Width: 81 cm / 86 cm encadré
Height: 60 cm / 65 cm encadré
Reference (ID): 1756830
Availability: In stock
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