Paul Daxhelet Africanism

Africans moving on a river using canoes. The painting is painted on an isorel panel and signed lower right. It is framed in a painted frame, covered with velvet and gilded. Without a frame, it measures 19.6x40 cm. Paul Daxhelet (1905-1993) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège and then at the Académie Julian in Paris. He initially treated sports subjects in an impressionist style. After the war, he made numerous trips to Latin America, Oceania, the Far East and Africa (Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Tanzania, Congo, etc.), witnessing scenes of local life. He became one of the main Belgian traveling painters, bringing back subjects of dance or market painted in a very colorful paste.