Fernand Verhaegen artwork • painting • for sale The celebration of St. Rolende, Gerpinnes
Fernand Verhaegen
Marchienne-au-Pont (België) 1883-1975 Montigny-le-Tilleul (België)
1883-1975
The celebration of St. Rolende, Gerpinnes
oil on canvas 54.5 x 44.7 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1913
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 10,800
Provenance: part. coll. België.
Literature: vgl.: Robert Magremanne, 'Fernand Verhaegen (1883-1975): Le grand maitre du folklore wallon', Charleroi 2003, pag. 48, afb. 13 (als 'Marche Sainte Rolende (Dans les prés de Villers)').
The Belgian artist Fernand Verhaegen has become famous as the painter of Walloon folklore. Born in 1883 near Charleroi, he started his studies in 1900 at the Brussels academy, where he was taught by Emile van Damme and Constant Montald. There he became friends with Rik Wouters and Edgar Tytgat. From 1912 he began to focus on folkloristic themes, with the Marche Sainte-Rolende in Gerpinnes as one of his first subjects. During the war he fled to England, but in 1919 he returned to Brussels where from that time he was part of a lively artist circuit.
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