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A seated nude woman with a striped skirt, painted in a loose, expressive style with a restrained colour palette. This work by Gustave de Smet evokes a sense of quiet contemplation.
Gustave de Smet (1877-1943) was a Belgian painter associated with the Expressionist and Luminist movements. He is known for his simplified forms, muted colour palettes, and intimate scenes of daily life. His work often features figures in domestic settings, rendered with a distinctive blend of abstraction and realism. De Smet's artistic journey involved experimentation with various styles, but he consistently returned to themes of human connection and the quiet beauty of the everyday. 'La jupe rayée' presents a seated nude woman, her arms crossed in her lap. The focus is on the figure's torso and the striped skirt that gives the work its title. De Smet's brushwork is loose and expressive, with visible strokes that add texture and depth to the composition. The colour palette is restrained, dominated by pale flesh tones, blacks, and whites, with touches of red adding warmth. The figure's eyes are closed, creating a sense of introspection and serenity. The overall effect is one of quiet contemplation and understated sensuality.

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When war broke out in 1914, De Smet and his friend Frits Van den Berghe fled Belgium together for the Netherlands. The flight transformed both painters. In the Netherlands, exposure to the Bergen School and to Leo Gestel's work converted De Smet from an Impressionist into an Expressionist. He returned to Belgium in 1922 a different artist. He was born in Ghent in 1877. His father Jules was a decorative painter and photographer. He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent from 1889 to 1896, then joined the artistic community at Sint-Martens-Latem, where he, Constant Permeke and Van den Berghe became the three founders of Flemish Expressionism, the second Latem School. After the war, he settled in Deurle in 1927. His mature paintings depict farmers, fishermen, popular entertainments and working-class women, composed as geometric, puzzle-like arrangements of coloured shapes that fuse Expressionism with Cubism. Village fairs and circus scenes recur frequently, treated with a formal rigour that lifts them out of genre painting into something more structural. His palette, brighter than Permeke's and more structured than Van den Berghe's, gives his Expressionism a decorative quality that softens without weakening the formal discipline underneath. He died in 1943, at sixty-six.
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