Portrait of a young African girl

細節

Paul Sortet (French, 1905-1966)
Portrait of a young African girl
signed, dated and inscribed 'Sortet/Namunza/41-' (lower left)
oil on plywood
55 x 46 cm.

注意事項

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拍品專文

Paul Sortet was a sculptor and painter, who studied at the Brussels Academy. Sent to Africa by the Ministry of Colonies in 1939, he travelled all over the Belgian Congo. Because of the outbreak of war, he was cut off from his homeland. In 1945, his work, together with that of other artists of the Congo, was shown at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour in London. Deeply attached to Africa, Sortet became a planter in Rwanda before finally returning to Belgium in 1961.