Oil on panel, the work strongly channels classic European surrealism, heavily echoing the elongated, spindly forms and dream-like barren plains popularised by masters like Salvador Dalí
The use of thin, dripping, and root-like vertical lines across all three panels creates a strong thematic unity, blending human anatomy seamlessly with nature and skeletal structures
Leopold Van Hende’s (1924-2005) art branches out in two directions, both of which stem from the same personality. On the one hand, there are the realistic depictions, the cityscapes and rural scenes that characterised his early period; on the other, there is the surrealist and symbolic work from his later period, through which he made his name in the art world
Signed and dated (’82)