Ernest Verkest - Heilig Hart Processie Roeselare - 1950s

Original promotional poster from 1962 by Ernest Verkest (1923-2002, signed 'E. Verkest' in the plate at the top left) for the Sacred Heart Procession in Roeselare, Belgium. The design clearly stems from the artist's abstract period (see below).
Condition B+: minor retouching in the black background. Mounted on Japanese paper. Fresh colors.
Shipping: rolled in a sturdy tube with Bpost track & trace or Bpost International.

Ernest Verkest was a Belgian artist born in 1923 in Tielt and who died in 2002 in Roeselare. He was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, graphic artist, designer of posters and stage sets. Debuted with advertising and occasional graphics, designed logos, book covers, posters. Painted landscapes, seascapes, still lifes in his early period. Later evolved toward abstraction, but afterwards definitively returned to figuration. (Source: Piron)