![]() ![]() Marc Rombaut's work as a writer includes poems such as Matiére d'oubli, essays on and anthologies of African literature. An introduction by Marc Rombaut places his work in a historical context and discusses his development as an artist. With over 140 illustrations in colour, the book contains reproductions of drawings, engravings and photographic documents that record all the phases through which his work progressed and the hidden symbolism lying beneath his choice of subject matter. He created a dreamworld – De Chirico's empty silent streets – peopled alternately by exquisite, idealised young women, or skeletons – an evocation of life and death. An exact contemporary of Magritte, his work, begun in the 1920s under the influence of the Flemish Expressionists and the metaphysical images of the Surrealists, eventually culminated in a unique and freely expressed style. ![]() This is one of the first attempts at a synthesis of Paul Devaux's artistic output. ![]()
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