Under the banana trees, Inkisi market

Details

Fernand Lantoine (1876-1936)
Under the banana trees, Inkisi market
signed lower right F Lantoine
oil on canvas
140 x 160 cm

Exhibited

Naples, 1934.
Brussels, 1935.
New York, The IBM corporation collection, Gallery of Science and Art in the Business Systems and Insurance Building, New Yorks World Fair, 1939, cat.no. 12.

Special notice

Vat rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium; the total amount payable is 137.5% of the hammer price.

Lot Essay

Fernand Lantoine, though born in France, is artistically associated with the Belgian Congo. On his first trip to Africa he was captivated by its market places and native customs. Later, back in Antwerp, he executed from memory a diorama of the Congo River.

At the Brussels Exposition in 1935 his canvas Under the Banana Trees, Inkisi Market was awarded first prize; it had won similar honor the year before in Naples. Paintings executed along the West African coast decorate ships of the Belgian navy.

Mr Lantoine is a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, member of the Royal Society of Fine Arts of Belgium, and member of the Colonial Society of French Artists, Paris.

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