Baron Antoine Allard (1907-1981). "young Chinese Woman". 1961.

Black and gold wooden frame (Usual wear). Frame dimensions: 41 x 32 cm. Dimensions of the charcoal: 38 x 28 cm.
Monogram, dated 61, located Pekin, titled in pencil lower right "pregnant woman".
Baron Antoine Allard, born in Brussels on December 16, 1907 and died on June 18, 1981, is a belgian painter and pacifist, co-founder of Oxfam Belgium.
Coming from a family of bankers, second son of Josse and Marie-Antoinette Calley Saint Paul de Sinçay and grandson of Victor Allard, Antoine Allard took painting lessons from Oswald Poreau. After completing his secondary studies at the Collège Saint-Michel in Brussels, he conformed to his father's wishes and enrolled at the Faculty of Economics of Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur.
But in 1928, refusing the future of banker for which his father intended him, he left Belgium. His father finally accepts his artistic vocation and Antoine Allard can then leave for the Munich studio of Professor Heyman. His entire life was punctuated by long journeys on all continents.