Adrien Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres - Artist Info

About Adrien Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres

Name variants

Adrien-Jean De Merprès, Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur, Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès, Adrien Jean Le Mayuer, Adrien Jean Merpres, Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres
  • Biography

    ADRIEN JEAN LE MAYEUR DE MERPRES
    (Belgian, b. Feb. 9th, 1880 - d. May 31, 1958)
    aka: Jean Le Mayeur

    Styles: Impressionism, Orientalism

    Subjects: Belgian Landscapes, Scenes of Asia and Africa, Balinese Genre and Figure and Nudes

    Jean Le Mayeur is a painter best known for his sensual images of Balinese women, including his beautiful Balinese wife, the dancer Ni Pollok. According to art historians Dr. Job Ubbens and Cathinka Huizing, Jean Le Mayeur was "… an exponent of late European Impressionism, which favors a gentle, earthy palette of yellow, brown, beige and soft blue which is contrasted to red, pink, orange and purple accents."

    Le Mayeur was the youngest of 2 brothers born in Ixelles, Brussels, to Andr...

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