Marcel Caron (1890–1961) was a Belgian painter born in Enghien.

Biography

His father, Alphonse Caron, also a painter, worked at the

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, in 1901, as his family returns to

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and through the connections of his father, meets Auguste Donnay and Richard Heintz. After close ties with the Barbizon school, he discovers Flemish Expressionism and is influenced by Gustave De Smet, Constant Permeke, Frits van den Berghe whose works are exposed at the art gallery ''Sélection'' he visits with Auguste Mambour. In 1926 he founds the group called ''l'Escalier'' with Mambour and

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. In 1930, at the end of his expressionist period, he sculpts on wood and stone and draws. In 1953 he exhibits abstract gouaches in the Gallery Le Carré in Liège, he continues his abstract research until his death in Liège in 1961 at the age of 71.

His works

Marcel Caron paints scenes of everyday life, ''Maternité'', ''Son Enfant'', ''Les Fiancés'', in the Wallonian Art Museum, ''L'escarpolette'', ''Le Jeune Garçon'' but also professions in ''Le Batelier'', ''Les Bûcherons'', ''La Bouture'', ''L'Homme à la Faux'', ''Les Plaisirs des Jours''.Jacques Parisse, ''L'Expressionnisme Wallon'', Édition du Perron, 1993

Exhibits

*1970-1971, Marcel Caron retrospective at the Museum of the Fine Arts of Liège. *1990, Abstract Marcel Caron, Cyan Gallery, Liège. *1992, Marcel Caron ''fusains et sanguines'', Cyan Gallery, Liège.

References

1890 births 1961 deaths People from Enghien 20th-century Belgian painters {{Belgium-bio-stub