Portrait painted on wood panel. Georges BRAEM (1931

Surrealistic portrait on wooden panel. Georges BRAEM (1931 – 1998), XXth century

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree ! No wonder then that Georges Braem, like his parents, embraced the career of a painter. A discreet and solitary artist from Bordeaux, Braem went through the lean and difficult years before being recognized as one of the heirs of the masters he admired, from Magritte to Hieronymus Bosch. Impressed with surrealism and gentleness, Braem’s work opens poetic doors to those who are not afraid to walk through it. So it is with this portrait evoking the codes of the Renaissance in a mysterious composition, where the soul, the psyche of this young girl merges with the very attribute of the mythological princess Psyche, the butterfly.

Painted on wood, this work in its original frame is in very good condition.