Francine Van Hove - Drawing in pencil Black stone and white highlights. - Size: 30 x 25 cm Francine VAN HOVE Born in 1942 in Saint-Mandé (Seine), Francine Van Hove completed her high school and college education (drawing and visual arts for high schools and colleges) in Paris. After teaching for a year at the girls' high school in Strasbourg, she resigned from the National Education in 1964 to return to Paris and devote herself to painting. She is known for her all-female subjects and the dreamy attitudes of her characters. His classical graphic and pictorial technique is reminiscent of the Italian and Flemish painters of the 17th and 18th centuries. In addition to numerous drawings and pastels, her work currently includes more than 400 paintings in private collections. Van Hove is one of the main representatives of the "classical modern" movement