COBBLER AT WORK - Kerels, Henri.

Etching, signed in pencil on the right and below *Henri Keles*, artist biography (Dutch) mounted on the back and transcribed by hand in German, Henri Keles (* 1896 Molenbeek, † 1956 Elsene), was a Belgian draftsman, illustrator and painter, student of the Brussels Academy and with Kurt Peiser, lived in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) for a long time, his works primarily include figurative portraits, landscapes and still lifes, exhibited at the Antwerp Museum, here a depiction of a shoemaker at work, on sitting in a chair and leaning over its workpiece, surrounded by tools and shoes, print bed approx. 26 x 21 cm, in angled cut passe-partout approx. 46 x 35 cm.