Lot n° 113
Estimation :
100 - 200
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 254EUR
Alphonse Birck (1859-1942) - Lot 113
Alphonse Birck (1859-1942)
Portrait of a woman.
Watercolor on paper.
Signed lower left.
Sight size: H_39 L_29 cm.
Alphonse Étienne Birck was born in Metz in 1859. At the age of sixteen, he left for Paris, where he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, then at free academies. Early on, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, notably a portrait of his father. Attracted by the Orient, he spent time in Algeria, made long trips to Egypt, Palestine and Syria, then alternated between Algiers and Fontainebleau. Birck painted genre scenes, portraits and landscapes: Kabyle stores and markets, alleyways in the Casbah, people on the banks of wadis, as well as Breton landscapes. His palette favors light effects, clarity and an often luminous atmosphere, avoiding dark tones. Birck exhibited regularly in Metz until the 1930s.
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