by EKCARTASIA | Sep 8, 2022
Marthe Lalire-Levesques: Portrait of Adolphe La Lyre, 1889; pastel on paper, 54 x 45cm (signed and dated ‘Marthe Lalire Levesques 1889’ on the left side) Marthe Lalire-Levesques (1865 – 1952) About the Artist Little is known about Paris-born portraitist Marthe...
by EKCARTASIA | Mar 19, 2022
Maurice Pirenne: Interieur; pastel on paper, 44cm x 36 cm (signed at the lower right) Maurice Pirenne (1872-1968) About the Artist Belgian painter Maurice Lucien Henri Joseph Marie Pirenne, the son of a textile producer, was born in the once-industrial town of...
by EKCARTASIA | Mar 19, 2022
Gustave Popelin: Portrait of a Young Woman in Three-quarter View; pastel, 53.4cm x 38.5cm (signed, lower right) Gustave Popelin (1859 – 1937) About the Artist The son of painter and enameler Claudius Popelin, Gustave Popelin received early guidance from the...
by EKCARTASIA | Mar 18, 2022
Ker-Xavier Roussel: Tree in a Landscape; pastel and charcoal on paper, 34.5cm x 31cm (signed ‘K.X. Roussel’ at the lower right) Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867-1944) About the Artist Francois-Xavier Roussel, known from boyhood as Ker, was part of the Nabis, which also...
by EKCARTASIA | Mar 18, 2022
Sean Scully: 5.17.89, 1989; pastel and charcoal on paper, (58.5cm x 76.4cm, signed and dated on lower right) Sean Scully (b.1945) About the Artist Though born in Dublin, painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer Sean Scully was raised in the slums of North...