Late Rene Dessainte's Unique Characters

The late René Dessainte of Belgium captured the essence of each person he painted. The portraits are alive and confident, sometimes depicted in the company of a family or friends in a real or invented environment where he feels they are most comfortable. He employs a symphony of color that is a significant, but discreet, asset in his work. The formal elements and surfaces of joyful, blazing, direct yellow, green, orange, and blue high tones float above the melody of a rather severe, more strictly bowed color tones of his background and figures. The single greatest quality in his work is that you will see in one portrait firmness and dignity, another joy and love, and another fine humor and sparkles of melancholy. He passed away in 2014. At right is an original, at left a lithograph.