In total, 937 works are up for auction at Damien Voglaire in Saint-Gilles on September 20 and 21. Including a set of books by Frans Masereel.
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By Jean-Claude VantroyenPublished on 09/18/2024 at 12:16 p.m.
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CFrans Masereel was a committed artist. He was born in 1889 in Blankenberge. The atrocious Great War made him anti-militarist, libertarian, humanist. All his work denounced the horrors of war, oppression and social injustice. A work of painting, engraving, illustration. If he participated in the collection of drawings The Great War and illustrated with sketches taken from life, the novel by the Belgian journalist Roland de Marès Belgium invadedit is his engraved work that attracts most attention. The artist engraved on wood. And he quickly achieved European success.
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