Lot n° 34
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Claude VERLINDE (1927-2020) - Lot 34
Claude VERLINDE (1927-2020)
The Factory, 1964
Oil on panel
Signed "C. Verlinde" lower right
135 x 100 cm
Mounted on oak panel
We thank Madame Marie-Thérèse Verlinde, wife of Claude Verlinde, for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work, included in the catalog raisonnée.
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Paris
NOTICE
A French painter, engraver and illustrator of Flemish origin, he joined the Galerie des Antiques and Jean Souverbie's studio at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also attended the anatomical drawing sessions at the Grande-Chaumière.
A few years later, he met Robert Tatin in Vallauris. Under Tatin's influence, he practiced art brut (several "Nef des fous"), which he soon abandoned in favor of a more personal style.
With his Flemish origins, he was influenced by Jerome Bosch, Pieter Brueghel the Elder and James Ensor, and became the Master of Fantastic Realism. A philosopher and moralist, he composed his scenes like fables with multiple readings. Disturbing or humorous, they oscillate between tenderness and gravity, caricature and poetry. The human race takes the form of imaginary characters, caricaturing the vanity of the individual.
Our oil on panel refers to Hieronymus Bosch's "Inferno", in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and Pieter Brueghel the Elder's famous "Tower of Babel", in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Workers appear to be working in a confined, unsettling atmosphere. During the D-Day landings in 1944, Claude Verlinde took shelter in the iron mines, from which he brought back many drawings of life underground. Probably marked by this episode, he drew inspiration for this work from this memory.
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