Jehan Frison (1882-1961). "malikah". Orientalism. Early Twentieth.

Old wooden frame, silver (usual wear). Frame dimensions: 50 x 42 cm.
Dimensions of the painting: 42.5 x 34 cm. Signed and titled. Monogram on the back of the painting.
Jehan Frison, born in Brussels in 1882 and died in 1961, is a Belgian painter, etcher, designer, woodcarver and engraver. Training at the Academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. He befriends the painters Rik Wouters, Auguste Oleffe. The influence of Brabant fauvism pushes J. Frison to practice an intimate painting with abundant and colorful paste. Exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1907, at the Triennial Salons in Ghent and Antwerp. Achieved great success in Utrecht in 1909. He was invited to the Salons de La Libre Esthétique (1911,1914), Salon de l'Estampe in 1912, Exhibited at the Galerie Georges Giroux (Brussels), in 1917. retrospective in 1919 at the Cercle artistic and literary of Brussels.
Travel to London, Paris and visit Morocco twice, Algeria (1917 and 1928), a country for which he has a particular admiration and from which he will draw the subject of many paintings: orientalist scenes or other landscapes of wadi and villages Berbers.
Works at the Chalier Museum, the Ixelles Museum and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.