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Back from the Fields or Farmer on an Ox-Cart, ca. 1925

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 70 x 60.2 cm
  • Inv. 1950-X

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Back from the Fields or Farmer on an Ox-cart is a typical work of Hubert Malfait’s early period. Its composition in sharply-defined planes, sober colours and extreme simplification of form reveal the influence of both Cubism and Expressionism. Malfait lived in Astene on the River Lys and, like Constant Permeke, Gustave De Smet and Frits Van den Berghe, he sought his subjects in the daily lives of the farmers around him. He was one of a generation of younger artists whose work was influenced by Flemish Expressionism.

Artist

Hubert Malfait RKD
Astene 1898 - Sint-Martens-Latem 1971
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Title Back from the Fields or Farmer on an Ox-Cart
Date ca. 1925
Period 20th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: HMalfait
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1950-X
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1950-X
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2250/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 25H landscapes Iconclass
300263554 animal paintings AAT
Keywords Iconclass 23K3(+4) the months of the third quarter of the year ~ human activities (the 'labours' of July, August and September) (+ with scenes showing human occupations ~ seasons and months) Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25H landscapes Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25H18 cultivated land Iconclass
25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass
41A17 farm (building) Iconclass
46A14 farmers Iconclass
46C14 animal traction, animal-drawn vehicle (carriage etc.) Iconclass
46C142 two-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle Iconclass
46C145 (farm) wagon, freight wagon, cart Iconclass
47I1431 hay-cock Iconclass
47I2111 bull Iconclass
School / Style Expressionist (style) AAT
Early Netherlandish
Modernist AAT
Hubert Malfait : Oeuvre-catalogus / Piet Vanrobaeys, Solange Malfait. - Tielt : Uitgeverij Lannoo, 1986 (p. 101, cat. 41 (ill.))
D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 254-256, cat. 71 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 228-229 (ill.))
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