Floris Jespers

Floris Jespers (1889 - 1965) Floris Jespers is a student at the Academy of Antwerp, then at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He completed his training with Franz Courtens. He is also a cellist and performs in theaters and music halls in order to earn a living. Floris Jespers is a landscape and still life painter. Influenced by Rik Wouters, his first landscapes, around 1917, were painted in the Impressionist movement, but he reacted against this artistic movement and participated in the Antwerp avant-garde in the company of Jozef Peeters, the poet Paul van Ostaijen, Jos Leonard, Paul Joostens and his brother Oscar. After a brief Fauve period, he tried his hand at cubism, constructivism, expressionism and figurative painting. Three stays in Congo between 1951 and 1957 allowed him to renew his theme. He synthetically realizes his theories through his African works. Floris Jespers later turned, until his death, towards painting under glass and mainly represented figures of clowns. He also contributed to the publications Ça Ira, Le Centaure and Sélection and befriended Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes when they published Du Cubisme in 1913. References: The works of Floris Jespers are highly sought after by collectors and are listed in many Museums: Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent René Magritte Museum in Brussels

Our proposal is a gouache on paper presented framed under glass.
It is signed lower left. Undated. Circa 1950.
Frame dimensions: 65 x 49.5 cm