Marcel HOCQ (1933-2021) huile sur panneau 30x40 cm

Oil on panel "the young woman and her horse" dated on the back May 1993 with a beautiful frame from the Schleiper house in Bruxelles.Marcel Marcel Hocq is a self-taught painter, sculptor and expressionist ceramist from Belgium, born in 1933. After gradually freeing himself from various artistic movements, his work ends up translating all the force of a renewed expressionism through solidly structured paintings whose sobriety of means accentuates the poetic climate. If he is inspired by childhood memories with nostalgia (funfairs, rides, circuses, engagements and weddings), if he loves animals (cats, goats and horses), the woman remains, nevertheless, the center of his concerns; he represents her with an impassive and serene face, only lit by large vague eyes which stare into the distance. His paintings exhibited both in Belgium and abroad can be found in private collections (Belgium, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain) and public collections (collections of the Belgian State, the Walloon Region, the Province of Namur, the towns of Kaprijke, Sambreville).