Maurice Wyckaert "In Flanders fields" 1962 Oil on canvas  100 x 120 cm

SUMMERTIME
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GASTON BERTRAND  ROGER DE CONINCK
ARMAND GUILLAUMIN  ANDRE LHOTE
HENRI-VICTOR WOLVENS  MIG QUINET
LOUIS VAN LINT​  MAURICE WYCKAERT
GEORGES COLLIGNON  LUC PEIRE 
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OPENING
THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2019
6 - 9 PM

​  EXHIBITION
14 JUNE - 20 JULY  2019
Open wednesday to saturday  2 - 6 PM or by appointment 02.539.23.09

Group 2 Gallery is pleased to announce its new exhibition "Summertime" featuring oil paintings, gouaches, watercolours, pastels and ink drawings by 8 well-known belgian artists and 2 french artists.

Armand Guillaumin "View of the Seine" 1880 Pastel
Provenance : Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart, Tefaf Maastricht

Paul Cézanne "La Seine au Quai d'Austerlitz" d'après Guillaumin, ca 1877, collection Kunsthalle Hamburg

Louis Van Lint  Gouache 1954

Henri-Victor Wolvens View from the Dunes 1945 Oil on canvas

Roger de Coninck "The beach at Nieuport" 1954 Oil on canvas

Armand Guillaumin (Paris 1841-1927)

Armand Guillaumin (Paris 1841-1927)

André Lhote (Bordeaux 1885-Paris 1965)

Henri-Victor Wolvens (Brussels 1896 - Bruges 1977)

Victor Servranckx 1897 - 1965

Mig Quinet (Ransart 1906 - Brussels 2001)

Louis Van Lint (Bruxelles 1909-1986)

Gaston Bertrand (Wonck 1910-Brussels 1994)

Luc Peire (Bruges 1916 - Paris 1994)

Maurice Wyckaert (Brussels 1923-1996)

Georges Collignon (Flémalle 1923 - Liège 2002)

Roger De Coninck (Diegem 1926-Bligny 2002)

Armand Guillaumin was born in Paris in 1841. He worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861. There he met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro who became lifelong friends. His influence on their work was significant. Cézanne attempted his first etching based on Guillaumin paintings of barges on the River Seine. Guillaumin participated in six of the eight Impressionist exhibitions in 1874, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1886. In 1886 he became a friend of Vincent van Gogh whose brother Theo sold some of his works. Noted for their intense colours, Guillaumin's paintings are found in major museums around the world. He is best remembered for his landscapes of Paris, the Creuse departement and the area around Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Guillaumin was the leader of the École de Crozant, a group of landscape painters around the village of Crozant in the Creuse. His Landscape in Crozant, is exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago.
André Lhote was born in 1885 in Bordeaux. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 1898 and studied decorative sculpture until 1904. He was influenced by Gauguin and Cézanne and held his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Druet in 1910, four years after he had moved to Paris. After initially working in a Fauvist style, Lhote shifted towards Cubism and joined the Section d'Or group in 1912, exhibiting at the Salon de la Section d'Or. He was one of the fathers of modern art together with Gleizes, Villon, Duchamp, Metzinger, Picabia and La Fresnaye. In 1917 he became one of the group of Cubists supported by Léonce Rosenberg. In 1918, he co-founded Nouvelle Revue Française, the art journal to which he contributed articles on art theory until 1940. Lhote taught at the Académie Notre-Dame des Champs from 1918 to 1920 and later at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He founded his own school in Montparnasse in 1922.
Louis Van Lint (1909-1986) studied painting at the Academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode until 1939. His early work reflects a traditional figurative painting style with a unique sense of color. In 1940 he founded the group "La Route Libre" with Gaston Bertrand and Anne Bonnet. His art was influenced to some degree by the animist movement, but he eventually broke away with the presentation of his painting, The Flayed Body (L'Ecorche, 1943), a shocking expression of his wish for more artistic freedom that consequently sounded a revolt against animism. As his style matured, he switched to abstraction in which he excelled as colorist. After World War II he co-founded La Jeune Peinture Belge. Van Lint experimented with geometric abstraction for a decade, and then, influenced by the French painter Bazaine, he started his lyrical abstraction period. He participated in the demonstrations and exhibitions of the CoBrA group. In 1958, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation gave him a prize and in 1960 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. In the 1960s, he introduced Hergé to abstract painting and provided him with private lessons for one year.
Gaston Bertrand (1910-1994) was one of the best known belgian artists of his generation. In 1945 he was a founding member of the group "Young Belgian Painters". In 1958 the Stable Gallery in New York organized a personal exhibition of the artist.​
Maurice Wyckaert (1923–1996) was born in Brussels in 1923. He was educated at the Academy of Brussels (1940-47 and 1949-50). He started with wonderful expressionistic still lifes in the style of Jean Brusselmans. Later Wyckaert became interested by William Turner and James Ensor and their ideas of luminism. In 1955 Wyckaert started to lyrically abstract interpret his environment, which contained noticeable influences of Eastern calligraphy. From this, he evolved to a dynamic abstract combination of attractive colors, which harmoniously shape a free interpretation of landscapes. Wyckaert was actively involved in several art movements and co-founder of the Belgian art magazines De Meridiaan and Taptoe Brussels (1955). He was also a member of Présence (1949), the Situationist International (SI) and the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus and  was close to several CoBrA-members, especially to danish artist Asger Jorn.
​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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