Emile Baes (1879-1954) - "Nue coquette"

EMILE BAES "Nue Coquette"
Oil painting on canvas
130x90 unframed

"Coqueterie" an oil on canvas by Émile Baes created in the mid-1920s.

Émile Baes, born in Brussels on November 12, 1879 and died in Paris 16th arrondissement on January 3, 1953, is a Belgian painter, engraver, illustrator, art critic and writer. He is known for his portraits, especially of women in their intimacy, but also for genre scenes, historical works, and orientalist scenes. He exhibited his works in the main capitals of Europe, particularly Paris, and he also wrote art books.

This painting belongs to a private collection.
In the midst of the Roaring Twenties, this Belgian-born painter (1879–1953) draws a very pretty and aesthetic nude, the body in profile, slightly concealed by a sublime fabric in pale tones.

The beauty of the model spreads across the canvas, her profile, her discreet, modest gaze, her very dark chestnut hair, voluminous, gathered into a soft bun at the back of her head.
The young woman traces the harmony of her forms on an opulent setting symbolic of the era.
Light radiates from the model; the mastered pictorial technique associated with this red-and-gold chromatic palette superbly enhances the young woman’s complexion in a nude bathed in elegance and gentleness.