Heyst Sur Mer - René De Coninck

Beautiful painting showing a couple walking on the boards of Heyst sur Mer in Belgium.
A composition that's play on the rhythm of the lines of the urban landscape, on its representation nearly informal and a color palette around terracotta.
This work is by the hand of the Belgian painter and graphic artist René de Coninck born in 1907 in Bredene and died in 1978 in Beveren/Antwerp.
Pupil of courses in Bournemouth/Great Britain (1924-1925), at the Academy of Brussels (1929-1931), at the Academy of Antwerp under J. De Bruycker and L. Peeters, at the Hoger Instituut of Antwerp.
He often tends towards magical realism, fantasy and surrealism.
"What slumbers in the realm of dreams and fantasy, he is capable of giving a biting existence. He opens up a world to us where we enter fascinated." (DRC)
He became a professor of etching at the Antwerp Academy in 1946.
He is mentioned in the Lexicon of Visual Artists of West Flanders I and in Two Centuries of Signatures of Belgian Artists. (Piron)

Oil on cardboard in very good condition, signed "R de Coninck" lower right. Resigned, dated "59", located "Heyst" and a number "75", probably from an exhibition, on the back.
Size: 15,2 x 21,7 Inches without frame and 17,9 x 24,4 Inches with its original painted wooden frame.