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Floris Jespers 1952 ‘Jeune Africaine’ Crayon and Charcoil Drawing

Floris Jespers original drawing on heavy carton “Jeune Africaine”

Artist is well represented in Akoun, ArtPrice, Artnet, Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonham’s etc.

 A splendid crayon and charcoil on cardboard, signed upper right “Jespers”

This is an exceptional work, dating from the African period of the artist, and concentrating all the characteristics of the artist’s works during this period: stylized characters, rhythmic structure etc.

The cardboard, which is in an irreproachable state, comes with a thick mat carton passe-partout and is suitable for in a modern space interior as well as in a more classic housing

Size : including passe-partout : 30 x 22 cm – image : 16,8 x 10,5 cm

Info Floris Jespers

(Borgerhout (Antwerp), 18 March 1889 – Antwerp, 16 April 1965) was a Flemish-Belgian painter. Jespers was born in an Antwerp artist family. His father Emile Jespers was a sculptor. Together with his older brother Oscar he went to the Academy at a young age. Oscar became a sculptor and Floris painter.

Brother of the famous sculptor Oscar Jespers (1887-1970).

In his initial period (until 1917) his work is very similar to that of Rik Wouters both in terms of color palette and theme. In 1918 a radical break followed. Cubist elements make their appearance and at the beginning of the 1920s he starts to use constructivist concepts and occasionally paints abstract works. But the figurative remains dominant. In the twenties, his most important works with highlights such as Adam and Eve (1924), Het chaakspel (1926), Bonjour Ostende (1927), Salut, Messieurs! (1927), etc. Opinions on Floris Jespers remain divided to date. Some see him as an epigone of many masters, others stress that in the following of several styles he could always retain a certain authenticity.

Jespers was friends with Paul van Ostaijen. He followed his studies at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp under the direction of Franz Courtens (1854-1943). He painted (among other things, glass paintings), drew, made prints, painted murals, sculpted and made designs for tapestries. Worked in Antwerp, Knokke (summer months), Brittany and Normandy (1928), Our (1940-1945).

Jespers made various study trips to Congo between 1951 and 1957. He was a member of art group Sélection atelier d’Art (1920), Kunst van Heden (1921-1927), La Centaure (1922), L’Art Vivant (1931) and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium.