Micheline Evrard Boyadjian (1923–2019) - Paysage de Bretagne

Oil on panel, titled Paysage de Bretagne signed

Micheline Evrard Boyadjian (1923–2019)

Micheline Boyadjian (born Micheline Evrard, 1923–2019) is a major figure in naïve painting and modern art in Belgium.

A singular and late journey

Born in Bruges in 1923 to a bourgeois Walloon-origin family, she received a strict religious education before becoming a secretary. A mother living in Brussels, it was only in 1954 (at the age of 31) that she felt the imperative need to paint. She enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, notably in Léon Devos’s studio. Very quickly, she freed herself from strict academic rules to develop her own visual language, spontaneous and figurative.

The style: The art of daily mystery
Although often described as a “naïve painter” by critics due to the purity of her line, Micheline Boyadjian distinguishes herself with a rigorous technique, a high command of geometry, vanishing points and perspective.
• Preferred themes: She mainly painted silent landscapes, views from windows, intimate interiors, objects suspended in time (booths/kiosks, umbrellas, pianos) and characters haloed with mystery.
• Atmosphere: Her paintings evoke a “poetry of silence” and poetic realism. Critics praise her rigor, integrity and total artistic independence.

Private life and posterity

She shared her life with her husband, the Armenian-born cardiologist Noubar Boyadjian. Together, the couple engaged in patronage and widely disseminated art collection.
Micheline Boyadjian died in Ixelles in July 2019 at the age of 96. Today, her works are part of prestigious public collections in Belgium.

Dimensions of the work: without frame: 32 cm x 52 cm
with frame: 34 cm x 54 cm

The work is signed bottom right
Contains 1 mark in the sky, see photos.

Auction results for Micheline Evrard BOYADJIAN in Painting;

Micheline Evrard BOYADJIAN (1923-2019)
Paysage de Bretagne

Lot No. 292
Painting
Oil on panel
32 x 52.5 cm
Not sold
Estimate: €1,200 - €1,500
Paintings, furniture and works of art
10/10/2022
Haynault Sprl
Uccle, Belgium
Details
signed bottom right
Condition: one accident in the center

The patchwork
Micheline Evrard BOYADJIAN
Oil on panel
59 x 92 cm
Estimate: €1,500 - €2,000
Hammer price: €3,000
20/03/2017
Horta
"Le quartier des chats" (1967)
Micheline Evrard BOYADJIAN
Oil on panel
37.5 x 88 cm
Estimate: €3,000 - €4,000
Hammer price: €3,000
16/12/2013
Horta
To the museum
Micheline Evrard BOYADJIAN
Oil on panel
57.5 x 90 cm
Estimate: €2,500 - €3,500
Hammer price: €2,500
06/12/2021
Haynault Sprl
"Plage la nuit" (1967)
Micheline Evrard BOYADJIAN
Oil on panel
36 x 55 cm
Estimate: €1,200 - €1,500
Hammer price: €1,300
10/12/2019
Horta