Robert De Man - Mother with child

• Very nice and large work by Robert De Man, image of a mother and child. The work in pastel chalk is behind mat glass and is in excellent condition!

Robert De Man (Jr) was a Belgian artist born in 1949 in Roeselare and died in Oostkamp in 2016. He was a painter, draftsman and pastellist. He was the son and pupil of André De Man. He studied at the Academy in Bruges and at St Lucas in Ghent. He is known for his expressionist design. He had a preference for landscapes, the mother and child theme, religious subjects, interior scenes, genre scenes and figures. His typical female figures are quiet, dreamy girls and women. His male figures are decrepit, shabby farmers and common people who are, as it were, fused with the soil on which they work. He depicts them in schematic design, with oversized hands, which gives their social concern a monumental expression. (PIRON)