Live Auction 3053Post-War and Contemporary
Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)
Lot 1 PROPERTY OF THE IVO MICHIELS AND CHRISTIANE FAES COLLECTION

Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)

Les arbres ne fleurissent qu'au Printemps

Closed15 April 2015

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EUR 97,500

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Jef Verheyen (1932-1984)
Les arbres ne fleurissent qu'au Printemps
signed, titled, dedicated and dated 'les arbres ne fleurissent qu'au Printemps 4-7-74 voor Ivo en Christiane van hun vriend Jef Peintre Flamand' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
96 x 96 cm.
Painted in 1974

A gift from the artist to the present owner in 1974.

Specialist note

'Jef Verheyen was a painter. His tool was the paintbrush, his material paint, his medium light, his inspiration the visible, and his chief precision instruments his eyes and his mind (...) Verheyen painted an essential distillation of his vision, a perfume of the visible, and his paintings offer their viewers possibilities of seeing something new, remembering things forgotten, and experiencing things they have never experienced before'
(D. Pörschmann, Jef Verheyen, Le Peintre Flamant, Brussels 2010, p. 67).