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Country of origin: Belgium
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed & dated lower right
Dated: 1928
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 36.00" x 32.00" (91.4cm x 81.3cm)
Framed Size: 45.00" x 41.00" (114.3cm x 104.1cm)
Provenance: This work was exhibited in 1946 at the Exposition de l'Art Belge Contemporain - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
1918
Oil on panel
£1,200.00
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Figures on a Path
by Henri Duhem
1909
Oil on panel
£3,300.00
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The Artists Garden
by Henri Duhem
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£23,000.00
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Provencher’s Mill – Moret-Sur-Loing
by Pierre Eugene Montezin
1947
Oil on canvas
£5,850.00
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La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor
by Maurice Brianchon
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1940
Oil on canvas
£6,950.00
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Route a Mougins
by Jules Cavailles
1896
Oil on canvas
£9,950.00
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Gathering Cockles – Gravelines
by John Brett A.R.A.
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
£6,200.00
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Fishing on a stream by the coast – Normandy
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1937
Oil on original canvas
£9,950.00
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The Old Farmyard – Sørup
by Peder Mork Monsted
1903
Oil on canvas
£22,500.00
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Pont D’Austerlitz
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
1909
Oil on panel
£3,750.00
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Figures in a village
by Henri Duhem
Oswald Poreau was born in Schaerbeek in 1877 and died in Waterloo in 1955. He was a realist painter whose work focused on luminosity> He also worked as an engraver, and lithographer.
He received his training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels both in painting and in architecture. He was trained between 1895 to 1900 by Joseph Stallaert and Joseph Quinaux and for architecture by Ernest Acker.
According to Georges Eekhoud “the work of Oswald Poreau gives us both an impression of power and of harmonious progression1”.
He continued his training in Paris in 1905 and was active in Barbizon although is not associated with the Barbizon School.
Exhibitions :
1904: Triennial Antwerp Fair
1952: exhibition at the Schaerbeek Town Hall.
Commemorations:
A monument adorned with a bas-relief by René Cliquet was erected in honor of Oswald Poreau at the Josaphat Park in Schaerbeek.