{"product_id":"decoratief-paneel-voor-het-restaurant-van-het-station-van-guillemins-in-luik-ca-1956-inv-0576-by-jean-rets","title":"Decoratief paneel voor het restaurant van het station van Guillemins in Luik, ca. 1956 (inv. 0576) by Jean Rets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 22\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMade around 1956 as a decorative plexiglass panel for the restaurant of Liège's Guillemins railway station, this work sits at the intersection of Jean Rets's fine-art practice and his career as a designer of large-scale public commissions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Paris in 1910 as Jean-Baptiste Retserveldt to a family with roots in Liège, Rets returned to Belgium as a child and briefly studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Liège. After a formative encounter with Victor Vasarely in Paris in 1951, he moved decisively toward abstraction and became a central figure of Wallonia's constructed-art scene, co-founding his own studio, the Atelier d'Art Jean Rets, in 1948, which \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 23\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003egrew to employ up to twenty-five craftspeople producing paintings, sculpture and public artworks for clients ranging from Belgian cigarette brands to the national telephone authority. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt has been shown at the Maurice Verbaet Gallery's 2017 opening exhibition in Knokke, at LAAC Dunkerque in 2022, and at BRAFA 2026, and is published in Michel Draguet's 2012 survey of Belgian art. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaterial: Plexiglass\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 44 × 125.5 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 23\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExhibitions: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke, Belgium — Openingstentoonstelling — 28\/10\/2017–15\/03\/2018 · Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke, Belgium — Under construction — 04\/2019 · Lieu d'Art et Action Contemporaine (LAAC), Dunkerque, France — Collection Maurice Verbaet 'Belgitudes' — 01\/04\/2022–18\/09\/2022 · Maurice Verbaet Gallery, BRAFA Art Fair 2026 — 22\/01\/2026 – 02\/02\/2026 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublications: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMichel Draguet, Art belge. Un siècle moderne — Collection Caroline et Maurice Verbaet, Bruxelles, Racine, 2012, p. 143. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis artwork forms part of the maurice verbaet collection and can be viewed in our showroom at Volkstraat 58, Antwerp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"maurice verbaet collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58130493800831,"sku":"MV_049_Rets_Decoratief paneel_0576","price":24000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/2307\/2055\/files\/2E6A2722.jpg?v=1786102804","url":"https:\/\/immodome-objects.be\/products\/decoratief-paneel-voor-het-restaurant-van-het-station-van-guillemins-in-luik-ca-1956-inv-0576-by-jean-rets","provider":"Immodôme Objects","version":"1.0","type":"link"}