Skippings Fine Arts has dated this Modernist Still Life Painting to the 1940s.
I want to tell you you about the artist who painted it, but let me tell you about the initial owner of the work first: it belonged to the Belgian writer and Goncourt Prize winner Charles Plisnier (1896-1952).
Plisinier was a Communist in his youth and briefly belonged to the Trotskyist movement in the late 1920s. He later disavowed communism and became a Roman Catholic, remaining nevertheless a Marxist. He turned to literature, writing family sagas critical of bourgeois society. Perhaps our painting held a certainly symbolism for him.
It is a work by Brussels-born Charles Herman Hoffman (1900-1973) who came from a family of artists: he was the son of Guillaume-François Hoffman (1863-?), painter and professor of anatomy, and the brother of Lucien Hoffman (1891-1951), sculpture and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.
Charles Hoffman was a discreet artist who loved producing still lives representing moments snatched from the intimate life of the home. Works by the artist are in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels.
Our large oil by Hoffman measures 80 x 70 cm and is signed on the verso only, where the artist also noted his address and the inventory/exhibition number "9". The overall framed size is 93 x 83 cm.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this Modernist Still Life Painting to the 1940s.
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The Soup Tureen, Ca 1940: Large Cubist Abstracted Modernist Interior Painting Oil on Canvas
