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A second work of Reckelbus : aquarella, 75 cm x 55 cm. It represents another bridge in Bruges, but in a very bad season. The work has only two colours : black and white and all the nuances that are possible. The most important for the painter is here the bridge, really realistic painted.

 

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A last work of Reckelbus : an aquarella 28 cm - 18 cm. It represent a smal sailboat on the beach.  As in the previous painting, the colours are gloomy, the see, the beach and the sky are treated in the same colour with some light nuance. The separation between sky and see is a line of sea waves, who are a little bit darker.

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a small gouache, 45 cm x 29 cm, painted by M.Van Middel, dated 1909.

Van Middel is born in Bruges in 1886 or 1887 and died there in 1952. The paintings is also a youth work. It represents the entrance hallway of a house of the 19° century. It is a typical construction for this period.On the ceiling, we see first the different wooden beams : a big one, 2 smaller and again a big one, the smaller ones support the wooden floor, this construction is repeated a second time, as we can see and a third time, what we can not seen. Then we have a yellow-brown door. The distance between two big beams is about 2.5 m, the distance between the smaller about 0.75 m. So, the hallway is about 1.5 m wide and about 7.5 m tall. For the dimensions, I take my second house in the Belgian Ardennes, dated 1732 as normative. The only thing that changed on 150 years was the entrance : I come, as we says in Flemish with ' the door in house' and on this painting there is an entrance corridor, so it is about 100 years younger. Interesting also is the interior, also typical for this period, but for a house of the better class. Coming in you see at your left a door, then a white wand, lighted or not by windows on the opposite side.At your right, you see a big window with curtain and two flowerpots. The walls are typical white with at the bottom another colour to hide trash.

 

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With next painting, we stay in a bad season, so the colours are grey. It is an aquarella, 73 cm x 56 cm painted by Charles Rousseau( Bruges 06/09/1862, Bruges 26/06/1916) in 1909 ( dated). It represent two groups of women; first two women with a child, then some place to show he town and then 4 women. As the cloths of all the represented are the same, I think it are beguinage ladies, keeping a child. I know nothing of this art period, so no interpretations of style, but, for me, the painting gives me some ieuws on the style of live in Bruges 125 years ago

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next painting is an oil on canvas, painter Jozef Middeleer, 59 cm x 40 cm, no dating on it. I had a lot of problems to make a good photo. It shows a brook in the winter season, it is nice but for mee, all these paintings have no soul. It is beautiful and that's all. It is painted in the style of the period.

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Next painting is the one I love most of these modern works. The painter is Arthur Vrielynck (Bruges 31/10/1877- St Kruis (very near to Bruges) 31/08/1918, 73 cm x 50 cm. He died when he was painting in a bombardment, a few months before the end of the war. Most of time he was working outdoor. His style is impressionistic.

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The next painting is an aquarella, painted by Felix Charles Constant (Brussels 1865 - Bruges 1924). He lived in Bruges since 1902. It represent the Vlamingbrug - Flemish Bridge.On the back, there is a label with the name of the painter and the bridge.