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André HALLET (Liège 1890 – Kisenyi 1959)
Portrait of a Man
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133
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André HALLET (Liège 1890 – Kisenyi 1959)
Portrait of a Man
O…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
André HALLET (Liège 1890 – Kisenyi 1959)
Portrait of a Man
Oil on panel
49 x 54 cm
Signed lower right: A Hallet
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Oil on panel, signed lower right (19¼ × 21¼ in.)
A Belgian Post-Impressionist painter trained under R. Heintz at the Liège Academy, André Hallet was sent to the Belgian Congo by the government in 1934. There he formed a relationship with the Tutsi king Mwami Mutara III of Rwanda-Burundi, for whom he painted a series of detailed portraits of the royal family and the court. Having settled in Kisenyi, on the shores of Lake Kivu, in 1947—where he remained until his death—he is best known for his landscapes and scenes of the Congo and Kivu, exhibited in over sixty museums worldwide, including the Louvre.
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