Floris Jespers Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Floris Jespers (18 March 1889 – 16 April 1965) was a Belgian avant-garde painter. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, he hooked up with the poet Paul Van Ostaijen and joined the Antwerp avant-garde movement of the 1920s. Read the full biography

Floris Jespers (18 March 1889 – 16 April 1965) was a Belgian avant-garde painter. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, he hooked up with the poet Paul Van Ostaijen and joined the Antwerp avant-garde movement of the 1920s. He contributed to the publications Ça Ira, Le Centaure and Sélection and befriended Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes when they published Du Cubisme. In 1921 he had an exhibition abroad for the first time (the exhibition of the Dutch art group De Branding with Kurt Schwitters and Fokko Mees). In 1925 he became a member of Contemporary Art (Kunst van Heden).