Maurice Charles Louis van Essche (South African, 1906-1977) Camp scene, Congo
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Notes : PROVENANCE:A private collection, LondonEXHIBITED:London, The Tate Gallery, Seeing Africa, July 2006After studying at the Brussels Academy, van Essche worked as a designer of stained-glass and wallpaper, and then as a freelance cartoonist. Accorded a travel grant by the Ministry of the Colonies in 1939, he crossed the Belgian Congo to Ruanda-Urundi (now Rwanda and Burundi), by riverboat and pirogue (a West African fishing boat), or on foot. In late 1940, he left with his wife and son for South Africa, teaching art in Johannesburg and then in Cape Town. At the same time, he continued to paint and draw: reminiscences of the Congo, nudes, landscapes and portraits of people of the Cape.
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