Project Description

Oil on cardboard

Dimensions : 41 cm x 33 cm

Signed lower right : m gerard

Spring in Groenendael

Groenendael is one of the six access gates to the Sonian Forest located 12km from Brussels.

The Sonian Forest, it is much more than the largest green space in the Brussels Region, the largest deciduous forest in Flanders and the most extraordinary beech forest in Belgium.

The Groenendael ponds are home tos species of peasremarkable sounds such as the Bouvière, protected by the European Habitats Directive, dragonflies…

The contiguous meadows are very interesting botanically. The important types of vegetation in the Sonian Forest often have a remarkable vernal flora on moderately eutrophic clay soils (with high biological activity), generally with a composition of mixed essences. The most remarkable vernal flora is composed of Anemone sylvie or Hyacinth des bois, or a combination of both. In spring, wild garlic can also be found in damp to flooded places, like at the foot of the hills.

Source : https://document.environnement.brussels/opac_css/elecfile/Foret_de_Soignes_FR.PDF?langtype=2060

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

Another work by the artist proposed by the Gallery

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