This abstract painting Het zeilwezen reveals Léon Smets’ fascination with maritime forms. Strong red planes and sharp geometric lines evoke sails and hulls against a dark background. The bold composition combines abstraction and symbolic reference, translating nautical imagery into a modernist language. Smets achieves both tension and elegance with minimal shapes.
Details:
Artist: Léon Smets (Mechelen 1895 – Mechelen 1980)
Title: Abstract schilderij, het zeilwezen – 20th century
Technique: Paint on cardboard
Condition: Good
Signature: Signed by the artist lower right
Sale with frame: Yes
Size without frame: 44.5 x 37.5 cm
Size with frame: 62.5 x 55.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection
Remarks: From the collection of an heiress of the artist
