Gaston Bogaert was a French-Belgian surrealist painter and writer born in Le Mans. He used symbols and unreal images to create a romantic and intriguing atmosphere, preferring to move in a world where one can feel the melancholy and nostalgia of the past.

The relativity of life and the impotence to escape from fatality were the basis of his rich, refined, and changing content. Bogaert blended his very personal vision of the world of the unreal, the dream, and the fantastic into unique paintings where one can guess a whole philosophy, creating a mysterious tension or an oppressive feeling of an imminent threat.

He will remain as one of the most eminent representatives of the surrealist movement in Belgium in the line of Mag...