Roger Raveel
(Belgian, 1921–2013)
Biography
Roger Raveel was a Belgian painter known for probing the border between reality and fiction in his work. Raveel playfully arranged motifs culled from everyday life, morphing bicyclists, birds, and striped poles closer or further away from abstraction depending on the painting. Born on July 15, 1921 in Machelen-aan-de-Leie, Belgium, he went on to study at the art academies in both Ghent and Deinze. Raveel notably made a pilgrimage to visit the elderly artist James Ensor during the mid-1940s in the town of Ostend. Ensor’s themes sometimes manifested themselves in Raveel’s work, as seen in his Memory of my Mother’s Deathbed (1965) which recalls the former artist’s My Dead Mother (1915). Raveel died at the age of 91 on January 30, 2013 in Deinze, Belgium. Today, his works are held in the collections of SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, Netherlands, and the Roger Raveel Museum in his hometown of Machelen-aan-de-Leie, among others.
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![Man met knotwilg [ii], 1983](http://qa1.artnet-dev.com/WebServices/images/ll00464lldynVJFgBPECfDrCWQFHPKcB0VF/roger-raveel-man-met-knotwilg-[ii].jpg "Man met knotwilg [ii], 1983")
.jpg "Hedge and Pole Sculpture (1983)")
-(something-moves-in-the-shrubbery).jpg "Er beweegt ietwat in het struikgewas (1965)...")
Roger Raveel
Er beweegt ietwat in het struikgewas (1965)...
Sale Date: October 21, 2017
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.jpg "White Square on a Blue Surface (1958), 1958")
.jpg "Tunnel (1990), 1990")
.jpg "In het groen van mijn poort - Amidst the..., 1984")
Roger Raveel
In het groen van mijn poort - Amidst the..., 1984
Sale Date: May 20, 2017
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