Picnic 1984

Roger Raveel

LithographyPrint
80 ⨯ 60 cm
ConditionExcellent
€ 3.600 - 4.200

MONASCH FINE ART - European art since 1999

• About the artwork
  Roger Raveel (1921-2013) was a Belgian painter known for probing the border between reality and fiction in his work. A painter between post-expressionism and pop-art. Raveel playfully arranged motifs culled from everyday life, morphing bicyclists, birds, and striped poles closer or further away from abstraction depending on the painting. Born on July 15, 1921 in Machelen-aan-de-Leie, Belgium, he went on to study at the art academies in both Ghent and Deinze. Raveel notably made a pilgrimage to visit the elderly artist James Ensor during the mid-1940s in the town of Ostend. Ensor’s themes sometimes manifested themselves in Raveel’s work, as seen in his Memory of my Mother’s Deathbed (1965) which recalls the former artist’s My Dead Mother (1915). Raveel died at the age of 91 on January 30, 2013 in Deinze, Belgium. Today, his works are held in the collections of SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, Netherlands, and the Roger Raveel Museum in his hometown of Machelen-aan-de-Leie, among others.
  
  This Litho is signed by the artist and numbered. A limited edition. An early version 27/100.
• About the artist

  Post-expressionist painter, draughtsman and graphic artist, related to Pop Art, of which he is a precursor. He has been working in this direction since 1952. Also creates ceramics and art objects.

  Studied at the Academies of Deinze (1937-40, H. Malfait) and Ghent (1941-45, J. Verdegem). Studies in ceramics at the Academy of Ghent (1954) and in Italy (1962). Paints frescoes in the cellars of Beervelde Castle (1966-67). Teacher at the Academy of Deinze (1960-73). Mentioned JPB (1958 and 60) and European Prize for Painting (Ostend, 1962).

  From 1948 onwards, develops a very personal style and builds up a new plastic language from a new perception of the objects in his environment. He strives for an intense interaction between the painting and the viewer.

  Represented our country in 1968 at the Venice Biönnale and at Documenta Kassel. Elevated to the peerage in 1994. Work in the Merode metro station in Brussels. A Raveel Museum (architect: S. Beel) in his native village is opened in 1999. Work in the Museums of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Liège, Ostend, as well as in numerous Museums in the Netherlands.

   

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