Frans ERMENGEM (1893-1985) - Lot 47

Lot n° 47
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Frans ERMENGEM (1893-1985) - Lot 47
Frans ERMENGEM (1893-1985) Les deux amies, very large oil on canvas, dated 1922 and signed upper right, missing, +- 137 x 200 cm. Note: Belgian poet, painter and art critic François Maret, also known as Frans van Ermengem, grew up in a prominent intellectual milieu, the son of bacteriologist Émile van Ermengem and brother of writer Franz Hellens. His work, at the crossroads of literature and the visual arts, is rooted in a profoundly symbolist sensibility, in which the image extends the word. Author of poetic collections that he illustrates himself, he develops an introspective and evocative universe, in the wake of Charles Baudelaire and Charles van Lerberghe. His graphic work, imbued with mystery and suggestion, can also be compared to the work of Odilon Redon or Fernand Khnopff, major figures of European symbolism, through his taste for allegory, dreams and interiority. Active as editor of the Tribune dramatique and translator of art criticism texts, he contributes to the dissemination of demanding aesthetic thought, while developing a personal body of work in which text and image are in close dialogue.
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