JANE GRAVEROL (BELGIAN 1905-1984)
Portrait of young man (possibly Marcel Mariën (1920 – 1993)
signed and dated 1971/Graverol (lower left)
inscribed Marcel (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
77 x 61 cm
Graverol enrolled in the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1921, where she was taught by Jean Delville and Constant Montald. She started painting between 1920 and 1930, this was before the rise of surrealism, and before she adapted the style she is known for today.
Graverol was closely linked to the development of surrealism in Belgium. She would progressively consider her canvases to be "waking, conscious dreams," and with her encounters after the war with René Magritte, Louis Scutenaire, and Paul Nougé, then Marcel Mariën, with whom she collaborated with.