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Lou Cosyn Gallery
An Avant-Garde Gallery from Surrealism to Abstraction
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Lou Cosyn, a young woman and a single parent, opens an art gallery during World War II in Belgiumâs occupied capital. The connection with René Magritte and his friend, the one-time Paris gallerist Camille Goemans, has contributed to the perception of Lou Cosyn as a poster child for Goemansâs new surrealist gallery in Brussels. But extensive archival research reconstructs Louâs exhibition calendar and shows her as a determined gallerist attentive to the postwar emergence of a second generation of abstract artists in Belgium. Meet the confident young art dealer who treats the bigwigs of her contemporary art world to vodka lemon on the balcony of her posh Brussels apartment in July 1944.
Suzanne Vanderveken, MA (2025), Ghent University, is Master of Arts in Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies at that university. She is a freelance art historian specialising in visual art of the Interbellum and of the 1950s in Belgium.
Art historians and professionals discover a gallerist at a pivotal moment. The book offers a case in point for womenâs studies and embeds art dealing in artistic and political developments.