Faiza Maghni

"Damas", mixed technique on canvas

2018

Provenance: 2014 Sale of Dr George Horst's collection (Philadephia) A major painter of the Barbizon School, he was born to Spanish parents, whom he lost at an early age. He debuted...

In parallel to his studies of architecture, Lebourg takes courses at the school of the Beaux-Arts of Rouen. After a stay of several years in Alger, where he taught drawing, he returned to France and exhibited in the salon from 1878 and then regularly until 1914. He participated in the Impressionists' exhibition in 1879 and became a member of the National Society of Fine Arts in 1894. He was promoted to Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1903 and then to the rank of Officer in 1924. Winter landscapes and waterfront sites had the preference of the artist, for whom values prevail over tones. Lebourg did not divide the tone but fragmented the key to make the color vibrate. In 1916 a major exhibition will be devoted to his work with more than 200 painted works exposed. Museums : Alger – Agen – Aix les Bains...

Nails and thread on wooden panel. The work comes in a plexiglass box. In his latest body of work, the Dutch artist Nemo Jantzen is combining skills obtained in the earlier years of ...

Nails and thread on wooden panel. The work comes in a plexiglass box. In his latest body of work, the Dutch artist Nemo Jantzen is combining skills obtained in the earlier years of ...