My father knew Léon de Smet personally.
L de Smet was making a portrait of my mother and my father saw the drawing in Léon de Smet's workplace in Deurle . My father fell immediately in love with the girl on the canvass... in any case that is what my parents told me when I was a child.
Of course I still have the drawing of my mother. And she is not in the nude! ;-)
Imagine... some 50 years ago you could buy a painting from him for a few thousand Belgian Francs.
By the way, a great artist.
Très belle toile et ambiance de l'époque... Pas toujours évident de photographier un tableau, j'en sais quelque chose... Je dirais plutôt que c'est dans la lignée de Gustav Klimt que Goya... pas du tout le même style...franchement...
commentaire n° : 11 posté par : François Jr-Paco (site web) le: 12/04/2008 12:16:47