Georges-Émile Lebacq (26 September 1876 – 4 August 1950) was a

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painter.

Biography

A Post-Impressionist and Impressionist painter, Lebacq was alternately a

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, pastellist and

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, landscape and still life painter. He also painted church interiors (stained-glass windows and paintings). Certain works as "Lumière d'été à Cagnes-sur-Mer" or "Le Repos en Terrasse" are impressionist. Initially self-taught, he first exhibited while a soldier during

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. After the war he enrolled as a student at the Académie Julian at

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in 1920, and thereafter worked mainly in

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Work

Most of Lebacq's paintings are in Beaux-Arts Mons ("BAM", the museum of fine arts in Mons, Belgium), the Musée de la Venerie in

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, France,Culture.gouv.fr, Joconde Database
/ref> the Musée Renoir in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, or in private collections.

Gallery

File:Portrait de Georges Lebacq (fils) enfant-1910.JPG, Portrait de Georges Lebacq (fils) enfant 1910 File:Cagnes-1910.JPG, Cagnes 1910 File:CrosdeCagnes.JPG, A Cros de Cagnes 1914 File:Lumière-d'été-Vaux-Le-Pénil.JPG, Lumière d'été à Cagnes Circa 1918 File:Nature-morte à la Serviette, by Georges-Émile Lebacq, 1921.jpg, Fruits 1921 File:Poivrons et Aubergines-1922.jpg, Poivrons et Aubergines 1922 File:Vitrail-Goudou-St Jean-Baptiste.jpg, Vitrail du Choeur de l'église de Goudou (France) Décollation de St Jean-Baptiste 1941 File:Cougnac-1945.JPG, Cougnac 1945 File:Rue-à-Chamant-1928.JPG, Rue à Chamant 1928 File:Cagnes sur mer-1910.jpg, Cagnes sur mer, 1910

References

External links

Musée de Cagnes sur mer (Château Grimaldi)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons (Belgique)

Musée Royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire, Bruxelles (Belgique)

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)

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