Paul Permeke - Evening sky with thunderstorms approaching

Beautiful oil on canvas painting by the Belgian figurative post-impressionist painter Paul Permeke (1918-1990) depicting a field with sunset and a storm approaching.

As a child, Permeke lived briefly in England, but in 1919 his parents returned to Ostend, where they lived at various addresses before moving to their house and studio in Jabbeke, built in 1929-1930 (now the Provincial Museum Constant Permeke).
Permeke was self-taught. After disagreements with his father about his future and training as a painter, he left his parental home at the age of sixteen. He lived in Lausanne for a short time and eventually returned to Belgium, where he formed a kind of painting community in Dudzele with two artist friends, Rik Slabbinck and Luc Peire, called "Het Luizengevecht".
During World War II he got into trouble because he was born in England and had "English citizenship". He was interned in Germany for this reason. After the war in the 1950s he spent a long time in Spain and Portugal, in Paris and in the South of France.
Permeke painted figuratively and incorporated influences from expressionism, impressionism and more specifically elements of James Ensor, Marc Chagall and Bernard Buffet in his works. He painted with a pronounced colour palette folk scenes, city and village views, peasant scenes, circus artists and variety artists, fantasy scenes, carnival and beach scenes.
Dimensions: 40x50cm and with wooden frame 56x66cm
Painting is hand signed in oil paint and this has been compared to 92 signatures from an art database.
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