Watercolor signed Aubin Pasque (1903-1981)

Watercolor depicting a series of women in armor, which could recall Joan of Arc. The eyes are closed and the faces are focused. Helmets and armor differ. They seem to be in front of a tapestry made in the same colors, a gradient of browns, greens, peaches.

Signature in the lower right corner.

Silver frame with matboard, refurbished.

Dimensions: 39 x 47 cm

Aubin Pasque was a Belgian artist born in 1903 in Liège and died in 1981 in Brussels. He was a painter, designer of monotypes and illustrator. Trained at the Academy of Liège, he moved to Brussels in 1921 and attended evening classes at the Academy. He leaned towards fantasy and was the standard bearer of magical realism. A sophisticated colourist, he began with landscapes from the Ardennes, Spain and Dalmatia as well as still lifes in a post-cubist synthetic style. He evolved towards the fantastic with figures, compositions from the imaginary, among others. He was attracted by esotericism from a very young age and, in addition to the concern for design, he gave his art an intellectual content, which showed his interest in hermeticism, symbolism, occultism or alchemy. Then, between figuration and abstraction, his art, based on the imaginary, evokes mineral or vegetable structures and are as many evocations where the mystery of ancient legends and ancestral forests is lost.

In 1958, he founded the Group and the magazine Fantasmagie (1959-1979), to which he dedicated himself for twenty years, as well as the International Center of Fantastic and Magical News (CIAFMA). Mentioned in BAS I and two centuries of signatures from Belgian artists. (piron)

Ref: wikipedia