"The Director" is an original oil painting created by the Belgian artist Ernest Albert. Albert (1900-1976) was a highly regarded Belgian painter and draftsman and served as a professor in the Academy in Antwerp. The style reflects the abstract expressionist period and uses textured impasto features with the darker color tones of mid-century figure studies. Paintings by Ernest Albert appear in European auction houses and are considered important expressionist paintings. "The Director" is framed in a gold multi-tiered frame that is indigenous to the painting as sourced in Belgium.