ORIGINAL SIGNED & MOUNTED SILKSCREEN BY FATHER FRANS CLAERHOUT (1919-2006)

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ORIGINAL, SIGNED & MOUNTED SILKSCREEN BY 

FATHER FRANS CLAERHOUT (1919-2006)

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Image (paper) size : approx 420 x 300 mm

Mounting size (outer) : approx 620 x 500 mm

Frans Claerhout (15 February 1919 - 4 July 2006), or Father Claerhout as he was more affectionately known, was born in Pittem, West Flanders in 1919 and moved to South Africa as a missionary for the Catholic Church in 1946.

Claerhout had no formal art training but came from an artistic family, and had belonged to a local art society during his student years. He visited Belgium and toured its museums in 1957. On his return he began to sketch and paint with dedication, and had his first solo exhibition in 1961. He befriended other local artists which led to the establishment of the Bloemfontein group. In 1960 he moved to the St Francis Catholic Mission in Thaba ‘Nchu, a 60 km drive East of Bloemfontein.

He became famous for his unique style, using vivid colours and incorporated items such as donkeys, sunflowers and figures of people he met through his everyday life. Claerhout died of pneumonia at age 87 in 2006.

Frans Claerhout blends wit and compassion in his quiet sympathetic style, which owes much to Flemish Expressionism. His subjects are the people and the village scene around the mission station at Thaba ‘Nchu. His palette inclines to warm, almost somber, tones; although it has brightened over the years, with flashes of clear blue and yellow illuminating the general ochre-umber glow. He often distorts and elongates his forms for emotional emphasis, but retains the overt visual character of all his subjects . (Esme Berman, Art & Artists of South Africa , Goodwood, 1983, pp 95 – 96).

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