Fisherman
Artist / maker
Constant Permeke (draftsmen (artists))Date
1921Period
20th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
After the First World War, Constant Permeke settled in a desolate, somewhat destitute fisherman’s quarter in Ostend. Influenced by his wartime memories and these dismal surroundings, he produced his earliest expressionist works. In the years just after the war, his chief subjects were the harbour with its fishing boats, and the fishermen and their wives. This 1921 portrait of a…
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After the First World War, Constant Permeke settled in a desolate, somewhat destitute fisherman’s quarter in Ostend. Influenced by his wartime memories and these dismal surroundings, he produced his earliest expressionist works. In the years just after the war, his chief subjects were the harbour with its fishing boats, and the fishermen and their wives. This 1921 portrait of a fisherman sitting is one of a series of large-format figure studies in charcoal on paper, a genre in which Permeke was to continue working until the end of his life.
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