Jack Jefferys (1896 - 1961) The roadstead of Flessinghe (Vli - Lot 21

Jack Jefferys (1896 - 1961) The roadstead of Flessinghe (Vlissingen), 1932 Drawing, watercolor and mixed media on paper depicting the Vlissingen harbor: animated harbor view, with smoking tugboat and silhouettes of passengers on a pier, under a misty sky. Signed and dated "J. Jefferys 32" lower right. Provenance: Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 1934 exhibition (label on reverse). Size: 52 x 48 cm with frame. Condition : Slight spotting and yellowing of passe-partout. Jack Jefferys was a Belgian painter, watercolorist and ceramist of British origin, born in Ixelles in 1896 and died in Rixensart in 1961. Naturalized Belgian during the First World War, he served in the Belgian army before devoting himself to art. Son of painter Marcel Jefferys, he exhibited regularly in Belgium, notably at Galerie Georges Giroux in Brussels in the 1930s.