Rue des Fontenelles has dated this piece to the 1920s.
Charles Houben studied painting in Liège, then architecture in Brussels. He studied under Alfred Bastien for painting and Jef Lambeaux for sculpture. He married Jane Kufferath , violinist and daughter of Maurice Kufferath , director of the Royal Theater of La Monnaieand a violinist too. In Brussels, in 1924 he had his house/workshop built by Ribaucourt, at 20 rue Alphonse Renard, which is now part of the architectural heritage.
He painted Flanders and the far north of Europe, France - the Oise and the Seine , Italy, Tunisia and Morocco . Since his death in 1931, only one exhibition had been held: the retrospective of his work, in Brussels in1932.
In 2012, an exhibition was held with Pierre Bonnard , Marc Chagall , Maurice Denis , Amedeo Modigliani , Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso in Metz in the Center Pompidou-Metz.
Several of his works today belong to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Museum of Fine Arts of Liège .
Rue des Fontenelles has dated this piece to the 1920s.
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River View - Antique Oil Painting
