Rik Poot (1924-2007) - Ruiter
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“Ruiter” by Rik Poot (1978), ink wash on Ingres paper, original edition, 50 x 32 cm, Belgium, hand-signed, in excellent condition.
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Rik Poot
Ruiter
"for Elly" (Elly Dejaegher)
1978
The Opinion on Ingres
32x50 cm
See detailed CV on Wikipedia.
Rik Poot (Vilvoorde, 20 March 1924 – Jette, 16 December 2006) was a Flemish visual artist who mainly devoted himself to bronze sculptures and metal assemblages.
He was born in the Flemish part of Brabant, more precisely in the working-class neighborhood Far-West, the first social housing district of the municipality of Vilvoorde. Poot attended the modern secondary education at the Royal Atheneum in Vilvoorde and then took lessons at the Academy of Molenbeek. As a child, Poot was fascinated by his father's artisanal work, who was a bronze caster and made grave ornaments. The annual markets in Vilvoorde, especially the horses that were judged and traded there, left a lasting impression on him. During the war years 1944-45 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. In 1948 he settled in Grimbergen.
Poot received successively several prizes: First Prize Outdoor Exhibition Anderlecht (1948), the Godecharleprijs and the City of Liège prize (1949). He subsequently undertook study trips to France and Italy thanks to a winning scholarship to study the art of Antiquity and the Renaissance there. In 1953 he won the Second Prize of Rome, First Prize Outdoor Exhibition Vorst, and the First Prize City of Brussels. In 1954, together with Roel D'Haese, he received an honorable mention in the Prix Jeune Sculpture. In 1959 he received the Coopalprijs. From 1962 to 1984 he was Professor of Monumental Sculpture at the National Institute for Architecture and Sierkunst in Ter Kameren, Brussels. Poot's sculptures are almost all in public spaces. In front of the courthouse of Turnhout lies his Rustende Najade. In 1982 he designed “Ode aan een bergrivier” in bronze for the Herrmann-Debroux metro station in Brussels.
Bibliography
Monograph "Rik Poot", published by the Mercatorfonds, 2004 (published on the occasion of his 80th birthday) ISBN 9789061535577
Dorine Cardyn-Oomen, et al., Sculptures and Assemblages, 19th and 20th centuries, catalog of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, 1986 (Poot, Rik see p. 139)
Catalogue Openluchtmuseum Middelheim, Antwerp. 1969. Sculpture. "Standing Man" Blue Stone. Direct carving. Unique specimen. 1959.
Ode to a Bergrivier at the Herrmann-Debroux metro station
Rik Poot
Ruiter
"for Elly" (Elly Dejaegher)
1978
The Opinion on Ingres
32x50 cm
See detailed CV on Wikipedia.
Rik Poot (Vilvoorde, 20 March 1924 – Jette, 16 December 2006) was a Flemish visual artist who mainly devoted himself to bronze sculptures and metal assemblages.
He was born in the Flemish part of Brabant, more precisely in the working-class neighborhood Far-West, the first social housing district of the municipality of Vilvoorde. Poot attended the modern secondary education at the Royal Atheneum in Vilvoorde and then took lessons at the Academy of Molenbeek. As a child, Poot was fascinated by his father's artisanal work, who was a bronze caster and made grave ornaments. The annual markets in Vilvoorde, especially the horses that were judged and traded there, left a lasting impression on him. During the war years 1944-45 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. In 1948 he settled in Grimbergen.
Poot received successively several prizes: First Prize Outdoor Exhibition Anderlecht (1948), the Godecharleprijs and the City of Liège prize (1949). He subsequently undertook study trips to France and Italy thanks to a winning scholarship to study the art of Antiquity and the Renaissance there. In 1953 he won the Second Prize of Rome, First Prize Outdoor Exhibition Vorst, and the First Prize City of Brussels. In 1954, together with Roel D'Haese, he received an honorable mention in the Prix Jeune Sculpture. In 1959 he received the Coopalprijs. From 1962 to 1984 he was Professor of Monumental Sculpture at the National Institute for Architecture and Sierkunst in Ter Kameren, Brussels. Poot's sculptures are almost all in public spaces. In front of the courthouse of Turnhout lies his Rustende Najade. In 1982 he designed “Ode aan een bergrivier” in bronze for the Herrmann-Debroux metro station in Brussels.
Bibliography
Monograph "Rik Poot", published by the Mercatorfonds, 2004 (published on the occasion of his 80th birthday) ISBN 9789061535577
Dorine Cardyn-Oomen, et al., Sculptures and Assemblages, 19th and 20th centuries, catalog of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, 1986 (Poot, Rik see p. 139)
Catalogue Openluchtmuseum Middelheim, Antwerp. 1969. Sculpture. "Standing Man" Blue Stone. Direct carving. Unique specimen. 1959.
Ode to a Bergrivier at the Herrmann-Debroux metro station
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Artist
Rik Poot (1924-2007)
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Ruiter
Technique
Ink
Signature
Hand signed
Country of Origin
Belgium
Year
1978
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
50 cm
Width
32 cm
Weight
100 g
Style
Contemporary
Period
1970-1980
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