Female portrait on a flat orange ground, The sitter is an older woman wrapped in a strong blue blanket and her age gives the portrait its weight, the face is lived in, direct and without sentimentality, which suits the flat orange ground and the painter’s modernist approach.
An extremely stylish example of Low Countries 1950's studio painting, simple structure and strong colour.
Original work by an artist who understood colour, pattern and flattening.
Signed Guy de Jong, 1958.
Signed, top left hand corner.
Oil on board.
Max Width - 61cm / 24"
Max Height - 76cm / 30"
Overall in fairly good condition, with some obvious flaking to the paint on the blue area.
