Belgium - Still Life With Jays – Signed Taf Wallet - 20th Century

This still life presents 2 jays arranged among fruits (apples or lemons). Everything, typical of the author's style, is brightly colored. The background is worked in small touches ranging from gray-blue to yellow. The touch is nervous.
Very good condition, no visible restorations. Modern setting, some gaps

Taf Wallet is an important Belgian artist. Painter of figures, seascapes, still lifes. Co-founder of the Nervia group in 1928, with Anto Carte and Louis Buisseret, a group which posed as a defender of figurative art, in line with the classical movement of the 1930s. He practices an optimistic art, made of light colors treated in a generous dough. He is a friend of Paul Delvaux.
Taf Wallet won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1928. He taught at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Several of his works appear in the collections of the Belgian State, the provinces of Hainault, Brabant, Antwerp and several Belgian museums.
Work visible at the gallery (07240)
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