History:
Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur De Merpes was born into an aristocratic Belgian family in 1880.
When the artist was young, Le Mayeur grew up in an artistic environment.
He initially studied civil engineering and majored in architecture. However his real passion was to paint and he seized every opportunity to indulge in this. Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur De Merpes once told his father who opposed his love for arts, “I don’t need anything except painting.”
LeMayeur has held four exhibitions in Singapore, the first in 1933.
He gained critical acclaim through this remarkable exhibition. As a person who strongly believed that his life was to be an artist, LeMayeur was considered a black sheep in his family, as he chose an uncertain life over the stability of a bourgeois existence. Le Mayeur's warmly colored paintings show that he was gifted with the colors used in his early works".
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