A healthy boy, protected from tuberculosis by fresh air and exercise. Colour lithograph by André Wilquin, 1942.

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<p>In the foreground, a laughing boy with his arms raised in a "mouvement respiratoire" (Devinck) Background left, girls performing exercises out of doors; background right, children in a swimming pool; background centre, a school building. All, including the artist's signature, in a "modern" style of the 1930s</p>

A healthy boy, protected from tuberculosis by fresh air and exercise. Colour lithograph by André Wilquin, 1942.

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