Marie Howet - Artist Info

About Marie Howet

  • Biography from Les Ventes Ferraton-Damien Voglaire

    Marie Howet was born in 1897. He was trained in the workshop of Van Strydonck while perfecting in Paris. He was Prix de Rome in 1922. Marie Howet had a preference for landscapes, woods and farms, festivals, figures, nudes, portraits. Howet finds inspiration in the Ardennes and the valley of the Semois. In Paris, she made a few blue-gray portraits in the style of the Nabis. His palette consists of bright colors: lots of blue, emerald green and ultramarine blue. His impressionist style was close to Fauvism. Howet traveled to France, Italy, Greece, Ireland and England. She had a workshop in Brussels. She was a member of the "Royal Belgian Society of Water Color". From 1931 to 1950 she was a member of the jury of the Prix de Rome. Howet worked in the Walloon Art Museum in Liege and in Brussels Museum, Antwerp, Ixelles and Tournai. Marie Howet passed away in 1984.

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