6 Victor DE BUDT (1886-1965) Woman in front of the hearth, 1908 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 55 x 77 cm Victor de Budt trained at the Ghent Academy, with master J. Delvin. Delvin. The press of the time wrote: "What is immediately both in painting and engraving, is his subtle and spontaneous his subtle and spontaneous way of searching for the soul of things. His work is silent and pious. Silent in color, composition and appearance. Pious, because filled with the modesty and reverence of religious souls before the grandeur of nature and the obscure secret the obscure secret of existence. Everything, big or small, exudes exudes a sense of eternity.

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