Project Description

Gouache on heavy paper

Dimensions : 50 cm x 65,5 cm

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Mary Elisabeth Maud GERARD

(Sydenham- England 22/01/1915 - Brussels 02/04/2013)

Belgian painter.

She studied at the workshop in Henrietta Bosche 1931, entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels 1931.
Maud Gerard studied painting with ANTO Map 1935 at 1937 and obtained a scholarship to study painting in Paris 1936-1937.

Winner Annual Painting Contest of the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels 1937, she studied with Isidore OPSOMER at the Antwerp Institute of Painting.

She was “Prix ​​de Rome” in 1941 and stayed at the Villa Medici.

Exhibition at the Gallery of the Unicorn in Brussels 1942, Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts in 1948, the Brueghel Gallery in Brussels 1952 and 1955.

A traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, New York, Washington and South America.

June 2015 : The Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris thanks to the generosity of his friends Company acquires one of his works.

http://www.lejournaldesarts.fr/oeil/archives/docs_article/128504/maud-gerard—eve.php

Sources : "Piron" – The Biographical Dictionary of Plastic Artists from Belgium of nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Editions Art in Belgium

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