"Portrait of a woman putting on an earring in front of a mirror": 37.5 × 47.3 cm (in a frame)
Mesocit on cardboard ≠ 0.5 mm: 25.3 × 32.8 cm (reflection coefficient); 26.5 × 34.4 cm (the area of the plate)
Signature L.d .: M HESS and signed in pencil below the reflecting field: Marcel Hess
There is no date [years 1918-1928].
The binding from epoc: Oak frame 41.8 × 51.6 cm, width 2.2 cm, profiled in a transverse one centimeter, bent sections. On the reverse side, a red sticker on the cardboard: Glaces-Vitrages Encadrements Bois Sculpté 30 · 32, Rue Veronèse / Vve ED. MICHILS / Bruxelles (10-20 cc.).Excellent visualization of the depth of perspective as a result of reflection in the mirror and slightly vusible person. Great composition and naturalistic silhouette. Soft, plastic technician.
The condition is close to ideal.
MARCEL HESS (1878-1948)
b. 1878 in Brussels. Versatile Belgian painter. In 1904-1913 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and Düsseldorf. He specialized in portraiture, still life and floral painting. He was successful at numerous exhibitions during the interwar period. The biographical dictionary published in 1936. Presented as "a gifted portraitist and painter of flowers; Sensitive and vibrant works of rich color. " He often used pencils and created graphic works.
Lit .: E. de Seyn, Dictionnaire biographique des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Arts en Belgique, vol. II, Bruxelles 1936, p. 565; H. Vollmer, Allgemaines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhundersts, Vol. II: E - I, Leipzig 1955, p. 434; K. G. Saur, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Bio-Bibliographischer Index A - Z, 4, München-Leipzig 2000, p. 722.
