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Andre MAHIEU (Roeselare 1904 – Bruges 1979)
Village of Bolem…
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118
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Andre MAHIEU (Roeselare 1904 – Bruges 1979)
Village of Bolem…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
Andre MAHIEU (Roeselare 1904 – Bruges 1979)
Village of Bolembi, Belgian Congo
Original oil on canvas
81 x 100 cm
Signed ‘Mahieu’ lower left
Bears handwritten annotations on the reverse: ‘Village of Bolembi, Belgian Congo, on the Upper Tshuapa, Ecuador’
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Oil on canvas, signed lower left (31⅞ × 39⅜ in.)
André Mahieu, a Belgian painter and architect, trained under the Impressionist portraitist Fernand Toussaint before studying architecture at the Institut Saint-Luc in Ghent. From 1927 onwards, he travelled to the Belgian Congo to paint — landscapes, scenes of everyday life and portraits of tribal chiefs — before travelling in 1936 to Jerusalem, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, and then returning to the Congo. Awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of the Colonies in 1938, he exhibited that same year at the Exhibition of European Orientalists in Paris; he is regarded as one of the most representative Belgian colonial artists of his generation.
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