ADRIEN-JEAN LE MAYEUR DE MERPRÈS (Brussels 1880-1958)

Bathing nudes under the grapevines

Details

ADRIEN-JEAN LE MAYEUR DE MERPRÈS (Brussels 1880-1958)
Bathing nudes under the grapevines
signed 'J Le Mayeur' (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed on the reverse 'Au bord de L'Oued ...'
oil on canvas
39 x 47 in. (100 x 120 cm.)

Provenance

Christie's Singapore, 1 October 1995, lot 639a.

Literature

Drs. Jop Ubbens and Cathinka Huizing, Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès: Painter-traveller, Wijk en Aalburg, 1995, p. 72. (illustrated.).

Lot Essay

The work is probably painted between 1926-1930, during the artist's travels in North Africa. The abundant sunlight and exuberant colours of the African landscape offer a much inspired experience to the painter-traveller who recorded the robust figures of the African women under the balzing sunlight, with his sitters right before him.

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