Frans Masereel - 12 woodcuts - My Country

Set of 12 woodcuts from the series "My Country" by Frans Masereel,

titled:

- the Fishermen's Quay in Ostend with St. Peter's
- and St. Paul's Church - with the Church of Our Lady and the White Mill, demolished in 1969
- the Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges
- God Sees Us
- interior view of St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent
- Brussels: the Royal Toone Puppet Theatre in the Beenhouwersstraat
- the South Station in Brussels - Waterloo: the Lion and La Haye Sainte
- the castle of Walzin (Dinant)
- the Albert Canal in Liège with the statue of King Albert I
- port activities in the Port of Antwerp
- Antwerp: the pedestrian tunnel (St. Anna Tunnel) to Linkeroever

In good condition. The frames show minor signs of age.

Most woodcuts in this series are monogrammed in the block (though not all).

MIJN LAND was first published on Christmas Day 1956 as a private edition ('hors commerce') and was intended as an end-of-year gift for the best clients of the then Bank of Paris and the Netherlands. This signed private edition was produced in 850 French-language copies and 400 Dutch-language copies. The public (commercial) edition did not follow until 1964-1965, almost simultaneously in Belgium (1964, publisher ILITA), Germany (1965, publisher Rütten & Loening), and Switzerland (1965, publisher Limmat).

MY COUNTRY is a wordless travelogue in which Masereel takes the "reader" on a journey through Belgium in 1956 in 100 woodcuts, starting from his birthplace Blankenberge, across West and East Flanders, Hainaut, Brabant, Namur, Liège, and Limburg, to end up back at the coast via Antwerp and the Western Scheldt.

The woodcuts often contain a nod to notable events or an indictment of social injustices.

Carefully packaged and shipped with a track and trace code and insurance.