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Large and impressive work by Willem DELSAUX
(Ixelles, May 4, 1862 - Grimbergen, August 28, 1945)
Signed 'Delsaux'.
Certificate of authenticity included (14/11/1996).
In photo 2 (top left) you see what is in photo 6. It looks like a restoration, but it certainly is not.
He was a Belgian landscape painter, graphic artist and ceramicist.
Delsaux studied decorative painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1878 to 1880. He then took lessons for some time at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.
Delsaux became a teacher at the Université du Travail in Charleroi where he taught decorative arts, drawing, painting and ceramics. After the First World War he returned to Brussels to settle.
He was a member of the artists' associations L'Essor, Les Indépendants, L'Estampe and L'Union des Arts.
Willem Delsaux painted mainly seascapes, cityscapes and landscapes. But he was also a skilled etcher, lithographer and sculptor.
The regions and sites he visited and depicted included: Brussels and surroundings, Doel and the Antwerp Polders, Zeeland (including Viane), the Kempen, Sint-Truiden, Bouffioulx, the Sambre river basin, Sart-Eustache near Fosse, Charleroi.
Delsaux participated in various exhibitions in Paris, London, Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp. He was given a retrospective exhibition in 1972 at the Cercle Artistique de Charleroi
Several museums have works by him in their collections, such as Bergen Musée des Beaux-Arts (Mons), Musée des Beaux-Arts (Tournai), Mechelen, Vleeshuis (Antwerp), Musée Gaspar (Arlon), Hotel Charlier (Brussels), Municipal collection (Saint-Josse-ten-Node), Municipal collection (Schaerbeek), Camille Lemonnier Museum (Brussels) and municipalities and cities such as Mechelen, Ixelles and Knokke-Heist.
In 1884, King Leopold II purchased the work “Montée à Furnfoo” during the Triennial Salon in Brussels.