Jan Van Imschoot - Les Nocturnes des Bonnes Vivantes

Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot unveils Les Nocturnes des Bonnes Vivantes/Nightime Revels of Pleasure-Loving Women, a flamboyant and exhilarating new series dedicated to his personal pantheon of the great female figures of history.

Arranged like sequences from a film, the successive paintings with their black background portray familiar faces and more obscure characters: filmmaker Alice Guy, Madame de Pompadour, Camille Claudel, anarchist Louise Michel, Antwerp painter Michaelina Wautier and transvestite deserter Paul Grappe.

This highly intimate vision of history gives Van Imschoot the opportunity to play with the conventions of figurative painting.