Marcel Dumont was an artist from Liège, Belgium who painted primarily in oils and gouache. Dumont also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, when he was employing geometric abstraction. Later, the influence of pop art could be discerned in his work. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel.
A critic wrote of him,” Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont’s world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig and Les Aventures du Roi Pausole. Apart from the aforementioned Zweig, Dumont also illustrated works by Pierre Louys. He won the Prix Art Jeune in 1946 and was a co-founder of the artistic group “Nord 7” Works by him are held in the museum collections at Le Cabinet des Estampes in Brussels and in La Musée de Liège