Amedeo Merello / Cecile Mersch / H.W. Mesdag / Johan Messely

Amedeo Merello

This Italian born painter made a lot of small works

especially mushrooms. His colours are always rewarding

but not always of equal quality. In this painting he really

succeeded and therefore it should be regarded as

a valuable piece as his paintings go up to 3000 Euro's.

Painted on a wood panel. He wrote his name, title

and dating on his works. Sometimes partly on front

but allways on the back. This one is called

Autum morning and is dated 1944.

Oil on Panel. Dimensions 28 / 28 cm.

Cecile Mersch

The light in this painting makes it very striking.  

In fact it is proof of a certain kind of art of living!

Work on panel. Dimensions: 35 / 50 cm.

H. W. Mesdag

This painting actually appears to be twice as big.

Someone must have cut of the real signature and

tried to copy the H.W. Mesdag signature.

(lower left) One of the various tricks in falsification.

Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 50 - 70 cm.

Johan Messely

This Johan Messely painting dates from 1986. Besides

being signed, this work has a sticker on the back that gives

the exact date information and name of the maker. Johan

nearly allways worked with Schleiper frames. This work

is in a very fine condition and allready has the elements

present in his later works. For that reason we think the 

work represented here below is somewhat earlier.

By the time I'm writing these comments we visited

the vernissage of an exposition by Johan Messely and

Irenée Duriez in Ichtegem (Belgium) We were invited

because I recently contacted him regarding the farmhouse

painting. He and his wife were pleasantly surprised by our 

visit all the way from Holland to the south part

of Belgium. We will never forget the hospitality we met

there and of course the beautiful artwork exposed inside

and outside in a lovely garden. Even more of a big surprise

it was to be able to buy this work the monday after!

Oil on canvas. Dimensions 70 / 80 cm.

Some of the paintings have been provided with a sticker 

like this one. 1986 was the year of production.

Johan Messely is responsible for a lot of art prints

Around the world in a soft impressionistic style.

We’ve recently met Johan and his wife as Johan

invited us for the vernissage of one of his expositions.

It is great to see that an artist of his caliber still is

a humble and friendly person and he was surprised

that people came to visit him all the way from the

Netherlands. The farm indeed is an earlier work most

likely at the beginning of the eighties. His father

painted a bit in the same style. We tend to think that

this early work seems to be more “honest’ though

Johan explains it as follows:
”Though the approach of my paintings seems to be

a bit kitsch, the light in the south of France really

turns out to be that way”.

Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 40 / 60 cm.

This signature has been obtained from one of his original works

that can be found on his site. Compare it to the follow up that 

is present on the work published here above....

The signature on the work represented here.

Draw your own conclusions. It has been 

recently confirmed by the artist.This one must

have been produced in the early eighties.

The subject is a farmhouse in the neighbourhood

of Oudenaerde (Belgium)