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A nude woman is depicted with a bouquet of flowers in this oil painting by Belgian artist Gustave de Smet. The work is characterised by its simplified forms and muted colours.
Gustave de Smet (1877-1943) was a Belgian painter associated with Flemish Expressionism. He is known for his simplified, geometric style and his use of colour to convey emotion. De Smet's work often depicts scenes from everyday life, as well as portraits and nudes. His style evolved over time, moving from early influences of Impressionism and Luminism toward a more personal, expressive form of modernism. He spent time in the Netherlands during the First World War, where he was influenced by Dutch modernism. After the war, he returned to Belgium and continued to develop his distinctive style. This painting features a nude woman seated with her back to the viewer, glancing over her shoulder. A bouquet of flowers sits to her right, and a striped curtain hangs in the background. The artist uses simplified forms and a muted palette to create a sense of intimacy and contemplation. The composition is carefully balanced, with the figure's curves contrasting against the straight lines of the curtain.

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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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