FEMME NUE

A seated nude her face hidden as she looks away from the painter. Signed lower right.

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Émile Baes (1879-1953) was a painter of nudes, historical scenes, and portraits. He was born in Brussels in 1879, and died in Paris in 1953. A student at the Brussels Academy, he continued his studies at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris (Cabanel, Bonnat). He was also a Member of the Institut de France (Arto)Baes was a student of J. Stallaert at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels; he also studied under Cabanel and Bonnat in Paris. Work by him was shown at the Salon de Bruxelles (1903-1904), at the Salon d’Automne in Paris (from 1928 to 1933), at the Salon des Artistes Français (between 1929 and 1938) and at the Salon des Tuileries (from 1933 to 1939). Baes’s canvases are articulated with patches of pure color.