Marketplace with bandstand
Oil on canvas, 56 x 80 cm.
Signed lower right: HVWolvens and dated 1936
Painted in 1936
Wolvens is a pre-impressionist with expressionistic aims. Already in 1936 he was influenced by the expressionistic style without using the vivd coltite of his scenery.
This style was in that timw unique and was the start of an unique way of painting. The firm use of paint is unique in that time.
Provenance:
M. Decoutere, Oostende
Expositions: Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussel (label incomplete)
Retrospective, Mus. of Oostende, 1997.
Retrospective, Chateau Maloue Mediatine, Woluwe. (Brussel) Certificate:
Orginal by Weduwe Wolvens Kroonstraat 52 Brugge.
