Adrien Dupagne

ADRIEN DUPAGNE (Liège, Belgium, 1889-1980).
"Female nude," ca. 1920.
Pencil on paper.
Signed at lower left.
With Art Deco frame.
Measurements: 48 x 34 cm; 64 x 49.5 cm (frame).

Adrien Dupagne was a student of Adrien de Witte, Oscar Berchmans and Évariste Carpentier at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liege, graduated as a sculptor in 1910 and excelled as an excellent designer. He followed the advice of his teachers and learned to paint. His pictorial training was forged by visiting museums and studying the old masters. In 1912 he was in London and worked as a sculptor in the decoration of the Titanic; in 1913 he was in Paris, where he regularly visited the Paris school that was his source of inspiration. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne. He also exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1924 and in London. He exhibited successively at Devambez, Berheim Jeune, Georges Aubry. Throughout his career he visited all of Europe, as well as the Middle East, North Africa and remained in Oregon at the age of 65, from where he brought back numerous drawings, watercolors and paintings, witnesses of the life of the countries he visited. His works are exhibited in museums in Brussels, Antwerp, Liege and he also exhibited in Riga during his lifetime.