Raoul De Keyser - Artist Info

About Raoul De Keyser

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Raoul Keijser, Raoul Keiser, Raoul Keyser
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    Following is the obituary of the artist from The New York Times.

    Raoul De Keyser, Belgian Abstract Painter, Dies at 82
    By ROBERTA SMITH
    Published: October 16, 2012

    Raoul De Keyser, a Belgian painter whose evocative, seemingly awkward abstractions both celebrated and questioned his medium, died on Oct. 5 in Deinze, near Ghent. He was 82.

    He died of natural causes, his family said.

    Mr. De Keyser became one of the most respected painters of his time, but slowly. For much of his 50-year career he exhibited primarily in Belgium and the Netherlands, achieving international recognition only after his work was included in the 1992 Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany, by that year's commissio...

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