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134 - Marie Louise VERWEE (Brussels 1906 – Pau 2010) Portrait of J…
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Estimate €600 - €800
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Marie Louise VERWEE (Brussels 1906 – Pau 2010) Portrait of Jeanne Original oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm Signed on the left-hand side: M.L Verwee *** Oil on canvas, signed on the left-hand side (15¾ × 19⅝ in.) Marie-Louise Verwée, who came from a distinguished family of Belgian painters (her grandfather Alfred and her great-grandfather Louis Verwée), trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Constant Montald. Admired by James Ensor in the late 1930s, she painted realistic portraits of miners from the North, exhibited in Douai, Lille and Béthune, as well as landscapes and scenes gathered from around the world — Scandinavia, Spain, Hungary — and in Africa, in Guinea and Senegal, where she met Léopold Sédar Senghor.
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About the sale Orientalism & Africanism
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Auction time 07/03/2026 at 2:00 PM
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