Gregoor Van Puyenbroeck, oil on canvas

The painter in front of his easel by the lake
Very large canvas by the Belgian painter Gregoor Van Puyenbroek (1906-1982)
Original canvas and stretcher
Signed lower right.
Gold-gilded wooden baguette frame
110x170 unframed
117x178 framed

Excerpt from a magnificent article by Claire Leblanc discussing Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Belgian Realism, from which a unique movement in Belgium, Luminism, was born:
Impressionism in Belgium, the epic of a free art
"From these simultaneously explored paths—Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism—a typically Belgian path ultimately emerged: Luminism. In the words of Serge Goyens de Heusch: "Luminism is the form that a trend took in Belgium from the turn of the century, marked by the almost simultaneous penetration of French Impressionism and Divisionism à la Seurat, all corrected by the profoundly realistic character of Belgian art (28)." Illustrating the high degree of development of indigenous Impressionism, Luminism - the most important representative of which was Émile Claus, a leading figure in the Life and Light group founded in 1904 (29) - constitutes one of the high points in the history of Belgian art. Balancing his compositions between a skillful and varied division of brushstrokes and a predilection for a particularly sunny palette, Claus delivers a work that is powerful in its radiant lighting effects and touching in the sensitive treatment of its bucolic subjects.

Gregoor Van Puyenbroeck (1906-1982) was a Belgian artist born in 1906. Brother of Jan Van Puyenbroeck, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Antwerp Institute of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Walter Vaes. He received the Van Lerius Prize in 1926; his work, which combines Post-Impressionism, Realism, and Luminism, is typical, with rich and deep colors. He is exhibited at the Bénézit.

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