Dimensions of the pastel: 40 x 54 cm. Signed lower left. Titled "Flowers and plants, Paris" and dated 1983 on the back.
Geo Mommaerts (1923-2006)
Geo Mommaerts is a Belgian painter and draftsman.
Training at the Brussels Academy (1939 - 1946).
Realization of urban, marine, nude, interior landscapes. Clear and luminous tones. His works representing old bourgeois houses in Brussels, Paris or Amsterdam exude the nostalgia and melancholy of a past.
First Young Art Prize in Brussels in 1946, Godecharle Prize in 1947, Belgian Painters of the Sea Prize in 1952, Triennial Painting Prize of the Commune of Ixelles in 1967, Lebon Prize in Auderghem in 1973, Baron Steen Prize in 1980.
Works in the Ixelles, La Louvière and Ostend museums.
Library: PIRON