Surrealist painting, Paul Daxhelet (1905 - 1993)

Oil on canvas, without title, representing the dance of “women – trees” red with multicolored leaves on a midnight blue background.
The atmosphere is poetic, spiritual and, at the same time, powerful and wild. The colors are shimmering and contrasted. Signature of the painting on the front bottom right.
The canvas is 80 x 100 cm; the dimensions with frame are 94 x 114 cm.

Paul Daxhelet

Paul Alfred Marie Daxhelet, born on November 25, 1905 in Liège and died on October 3, 1993 in Liège, is a Belgian painter, drawer, watercolourist and engraver.
Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège and then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1926), he began his career in an impressionist style in the 1930s with a work where sports themes dominate, especially boxing that the painter practices himself.
After the First World War, he worked mainly in the south of France.
He fell under the charm of the Belgian Congo during a trip in 1951. He then became the painter of colonial exoticism. From his travels, in Africa then in India, in the Far East, in South America, in Polynesia and in Senegal, he brings back sketches and drawings made on live where he then draws paintings where color and movement reign.
He was inspired by the landscapes of Africa, its fauna, its flora, its inhabitants, local markets, and dancers. His paintings were painted in a vivid palette and sometimes with an abstract background.
He taught at the Academy of Liège from 1957 to 1970.

Works at the Cabinet des Estampes in Liège and Brussels.