Emile DECKERS

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Result : 5 625EUR
Emile DECKERS
VERY INTERESTING AND SENSUAL PAINTING "JEUNE MODELE NU A ALGER" BY Emile DECKERS (1885-1968) Oil on canvas signed and localized lower right 77,5 x 57 cm Emile Deckers was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liege, then in Paris as a student of Carolus Duran and Evariste Carpentier. He won the first prize in anatomy and the first prize in painting in 1904, was awarded a medal by the Belgian government in 1904 (superior competition for painting from a live model in 1906) as well as the Donnay prize (travel grant). At the age of 21, he was awarded first prize for historical composition, and in 1911 he was appointed member of the Jury of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was at the front throughout the First World War, and was made a knight of the Order of the Crown, holder of the Belgian Victory Medal and of the commemoration of the defence of Liège. He settled in Algiers in 1921 and became known there as an "orientalist" painter, a justified reputation which brought him fame. He paints in particular scenes of local kinds, and in particular portraits of young Kabyles, touaregs or tribes of the south and the Atlas. His work is similar to that of his predecessor Édouard Herzig, but in oil on canvas and not in gouache on paper. It carries out large formats of portraits often in three visions or more (its "trademark"), always very required nowadays by the collectors. From 1930 he divided his time between Algiers and his native Belgium in the summer. In 1940 he settled in the Belgian Congo, which he did not leave until 1950. Of Belgian nationality, it remains in Algiers after June 1962, and will leave the city only in 1966. He returned to Belgium in Verviers where he died on 6 February 1968.
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