Auguste Mambour - Spectacular Charcoal Dated 1923

Large and spectacular charcoal by Auguste Mambour (1896 - 1968) representing two African women.
The work is dated 1923 and signed lower left.
The whole is presented and presented in a half-round frame.
The dimensions including frame: 144 x 109 centimeters

Biography:
Auguste Mambour is a Belgian painter, born in 1896 in Liège where he died in 1968.
His work from the 1920s is of a very personal style, marked by the influence of African art.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège from 1913 to 1919. His style will then be influenced by Évariste Carpentier, Auguste Donnay and Adrien de Witte before discovering African art.
He spent 6 months in 1923 in the Belgian Congo after receiving the second prize of Rome in 1922.
He joined surrealism between 1926 and 1929. He founded an advertising agency in the late 1930s. He was also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège.

Works
1922: Seated Couple (Alphèdre)
1924: Bust of a Woman, private collection.
1926:
The Round 1929: Portrait of a Woman Mambole, private collection
1932: Negress Bambole, private collection
1933: Nude of Iron, at the Museum of Walloon Art in Liège
1933: Masks