Roger DE CONINCK (1926-2002) - Lot 95

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Roger DE CONINCK (1926-2002) - Lot 95
Roger DE CONINCK (1926-2002) Village de Luluabourg, huile sur toile, 50 x 65,5 cm, signée et datée 53. Note : Roger de Coninck was born in Diegem near Brussels in 1926. In 1942 he starts drawing and is encouraged by belgian painters Louis Ramah and Edgard Tytgat. In 1945 the famous Galerie Apollo in Brussels organizes a first solo exhibition followed by a second one in 1947. He gets acquainted with fellow artists Alechinsky, Bertrand, Bonnet, Van Lint and Serge Creuz. After Ramah's death belgian painter Paul Maas becomes his mentor. Since the early 1950's he stays regularly in Nieuport at the belgian coasts, where his family owns "Villa l'Hermitage" at the seaside. He visits the Belgian Congo in 1953 and exhibits in Luluabourg (Kananga). In 1955 he settles in Paris in the atelier of Bram Van Velde in Montrouge. In 1959 he gets in touch with Galerie Framond in Paris, who will organize a large number of exhibitions of the artist until his death in 2002. Framond exhibited major artists like Estève, Poliakoff, Vieira da Silva and Geer Van Velde. Group exhibitions in London 1965 and Osaka in 1966. After a 20 year absence, de Coninck exhibits again in Brussels in 1980 at Galerie Abras-Mont-des-Arts. In 2004 Serge Goyens de Heusch rediscovered the artist's work and organized a solo exhibition at the "Fondation belge d'art contemporain".
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