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Agnès Leplae (1933). Ceramics. 1989.
Ceramic and slate to place or hang. Signed and dated 1989.
Dimensions of the slate: 27 x 18.5 cm.
Diameter of the ceramic: 16.5 cm.
Agnès Leplae, born in Brussels in 1933, is a Belgian artist. Agnès Leplae is the daughter of the sculptor Charles Leplae. From 1951 to 1953, she studied ceramics at the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre in Brussels, with Pierre Caille. Then, she learned mosaics at the Italian School of Decorative Arts in Paris. A first solo exhibition at the Giroux gallery in 1958 reveals various facets of her artistic personality. However, she chose to be a mosaicist, a profession she deepened in Italy, in Ravenna, in 1963. Her sense of the monumental developed in several compositions in ceramics and mosaics: The procession with the golden coach, (1962) at the provincial palace of Mons, the mosaic of the Free University of Brussels (1968). Her first work, Masked Ball, admired by Pierre Caille, was purchased for the collections of the Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels when its author was barely twenty years old. Later, her art was recognized internationally and her works (ceramics, mosaics, tapestries) were purchased for Belgian public collections, but also by foreign museums (Oslo Museum, International Museum of Ceramics of Faenza in Italy) and by private collectors. The Sart Tilman mosaic (1980) was the last she produced. From the early 1990s, Agnès Leplae devoted herself to painting.
Dimensions of the slate: 27 x 18.5 cm.
Diameter of the ceramic: 16.5 cm.
Agnès Leplae, born in Brussels in 1933, is a Belgian artist. Agnès Leplae is the daughter of the sculptor Charles Leplae. From 1951 to 1953, she studied ceramics at the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre in Brussels, with Pierre Caille. Then, she learned mosaics at the Italian School of Decorative Arts in Paris. A first solo exhibition at the Giroux gallery in 1958 reveals various facets of her artistic personality. However, she chose to be a mosaicist, a profession she deepened in Italy, in Ravenna, in 1963. Her sense of the monumental developed in several compositions in ceramics and mosaics: The procession with the golden coach, (1962) at the provincial palace of Mons, the mosaic of the Free University of Brussels (1968). Her first work, Masked Ball, admired by Pierre Caille, was purchased for the collections of the Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels when its author was barely twenty years old. Later, her art was recognized internationally and her works (ceramics, mosaics, tapestries) were purchased for Belgian public collections, but also by foreign museums (Oslo Museum, International Museum of Ceramics of Faenza in Italy) and by private collectors. The Sart Tilman mosaic (1980) was the last she produced. From the early 1990s, Agnès Leplae devoted herself to painting.
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