MARGUERITE AERS | La Fleuriste
Signed 'Marg. Aers' (lower right)
Oil on Canvas
40 x 50 cms / 15¾ x 19¾ inches
Marguerite Aers presents an intimate interior scene shaped by confident, expressive brushwork and a muted, harmonious palette. Working alla prima, she allows paint to remain visibly active, lending immediacy to both figure and setting. The florist is rendered with sensitivity rather than detail, as Aers prioritises atmosphere, gesture and tonal balance, creating a quietly reflective work rooted in modern French figurative tradition.
Marguerite Aers was born in Bruges, Belgium, in 1918 at the end of Belgium’s traumatic First World War experience. Showing a great interest in oil painting from a young age, her parents supported their daughter’s ambition to become an artist. Having studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Bruges in the late 1930s, Marguerite Aers embarked fully on her artistic career after the end of the Second World War.
In this, she shared her life’s work with her husband, Jacques Geuens, another well-known painter from Bruges whom she married in 1942. They often exhibited their works together and their marriage was one of great artistic influence and cross-pollination of ideas.
Marguerite Aers’ career spanned a great range of subjects, from landscapes to still lives, but Aers is best known for her work depicting nudes and groups of people in genre scenes. Many of her most celebrated works are romantic depictions of the Belle Epoque, that mix her Impressionistic pictorial style with an academic subject matter. She passed away four years after her husband’s death, in 1995 in Bruges.
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