Lucie Delarue-mardrus (1874-1945) Orientalist Portrait Of Doctor Georges Bechamp Consul

Very beautiful expressionist portrait, extraordinary work of an exceptional man painted by an artist of the same vein.
Indeed, this portrait by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus represents her nephew Georges Bechamp, doctor of medicine and Consul of France in China.

This oil on panel signed and dated 1919 is in very good condition.
Several inscriptions on the back testify to the singular character of this work.

Dimensions: 53 x 46 cm

Georges Bechamp

Georges Bechamp was a recognized figure in China;
He was a passionate scholar of everything: science, literature, philosophy, living and dead languages, arts, crafts, civilizations and new techniques. He corresponded regularly with scholars such as Paul Langevin and Father Theilhard de Chardin.
From June 1940, this unconventional man, and quite rebellious, rallied to the Free France that had just created General De Gaulle.
He was in Hong Kong during the Japanese attack of December 1941. He followed the fate of the French community of the Concession: the Japanese embarked him on a Japanese liner to Indochina. 
His journey ended in a cell in the Central House of Hanoi.
Doctor Béchamp is an extraordinary being, who was the cellmate of Pierre Boulle in Indochina. The writer describes it in detail in his autobiography “The Sources of the River Kwai”.

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus

Poetry, novels, short stories, articles, essays, biographies, travel narratives, plays… But also drawings, amazing paintings, very varied sculptures, scores... Here is a prolific work and a rich life. Lucie Delarue-Mardrus was a complete artist with multiple gifts, an insatiable curiosity and an impressive ability to work.

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