CAUCHIE Paul
ELEGANT LADY AT THE SEASIDE
Gouache on paper: 50 x 38 cm / 19.7 x 15 ins
Signed lower right
Painter of landscapes, panoramic views, mothers and figures; draughtsman, painter of gouaches, architect and designer of posters, playing-cards and furniture.
Paul Cauchie was a pupil of the Antwerp Academy (1891-1893) and at the Brussels Academy under Montald (1893-1898), where he obtained every prize. He excelled in decorative paintings, but was also known as a designer of posters, playing-cards and furniture. As an architect, he was a follower of the Art Nouveau. He directed the “Entreprise Générale de Décoration en Sgraffito pour Façades et Intérieurs”, that was responsible for hundreds of works in the Brussels region.
Cauchie’s realist and luminist works of art are always marked with the seal of spirituality and symbolism.
Period:
Ath 1875 - Etterbeek 1952
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Brussels - Schaerbeek - Tournai
Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 91-92.
