Category
PaintingMedium
Oil/canvasType of Artwork
Original artworkCertificate issued by
Maison d-Art (Art Historian)Signature
baseSize of the artwork
60 x 40 cm(23.62 x 15.75 in)
Invoice issued by
Maison d-ArtCondition
excellentArtwork description
Emile BAES
(1879-1954)
The Young Moor - Hommage to Kees Van Dongen
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The influence of Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) is obvious. The "Portrait of Madame Gigandet" circa 1920 (Oil on canvas 59x32cm) is a good example.
Listed in the Belgium Orientalists painters, Emile Baes was born in Brussels in 1879. At the age of 16 he became a student of J. Stallaert at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In 1900 he also studied under Cabanel and Bonnat in Paris. Baes became a painter of nudes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes and historical subjects. He was also an illustrator and writer. He exhibited at the Salon de Bruxelles in 1903 and 1904 and at the Salon d’Automne in Paris from 1928 to 1933, at the Salon des Artistes Francais between 1929 and 1938 and at the Salon des Tuileries from 1933 to 1939. After the second world war he settled in Paris where his sumptuous subjects had a great success. He died in Paris in 1954. Did work with the galerie Georges Giroux. Member of the Institut de France as writer.