Georges Lebacq (1876-1950) Still Life Art Deco

Large painting in gouache watercolor on cardboard signed lower right G-Lebacq (Georges Lebacq 1876-1950) composition in still life presenting on a white tablecloth edged with red stripes, fruits, a pitcher and a fruit bowl, the set on a background adorned with a large burgundy-colored fabric embroidered with a pattern of flowers and arabesques. Good condition, a few small scratches (the glass is missing). Dimensions: 73 cm X 58 cm / sight: 60 X 45 cm Belgian impressionist and post-impressionist painter Georges Émile Lebacq Worked with watercolors, red chalk, pastels and charcoal "It was charcoal that taught me to paint ", he said he had always created works like Abandon, for which he won the jury prize at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1927, Rue du Corbeau, Vieilles Maisons à Fumes and the Woman with a Mirror. Indeed, before the last war, Lebacq exhibited many paintings at the Salon and at the Grand Palais in Paris. During his long stay in France Lebacq frequented Denys Puech, French sculptor director of the Villa Medici from 1921 to 1933 and elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts from 1905, as well as the opera singer Charles Panzéra 1896-1976 whose his daughter Henriette took lessons from I sing. To reimburse Lebacq, he gave the singer a stained glass window with his portrait. On the occasion of Lebacq's personal exhibition at the "Journal" gallery in Paris in 1923, Denys Puech writes about him: Lebacq died in Bruges in 1950. He was 74 years old. In 1957, the Mons Museum of Fine Arts set up its retrospective.