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Born in Liege, Belgium
in 1890, Hallet first exhibited his paintings there in 1917. Two years later, he exhibited in Aix-en-Provence, Marseilles
and Toulon in the South of France. Warm sun and vivid colors of the region were a mainstay of his well received works. Wanderlust
brought him back to Bruges and then to London and Brussels. He continued to paint in Naples, Capri and Sicily. A 1925 exhibition
at the Reitlinger Gallery, in Paris, was successful and two of his works were purchased for the Luxembourg Museum.
In 1934, Andre Hallet was sent by King Leopold to the Belgian Congo to paint, in a favorable light, the scenes and the people.
The equatorial sun and reverberating colors characterized his Congolese works. When the artist returned to Europe, critics
applauded the exhibitions of these paintings. In 1947, at the end of WW II, he settled in Kisenyi, Northeast Rwanda, along
the shores of Lake Kivu, and painted proflificly until his death in April of 1959.
Andre Hallet was the father
of Jean-Pierre Hallet. His paintings are exhibited at more than 60 museums throughout the world including The Louvre.
On Tuesday, May 9th we will be offering seventeen of Andre Hallet's beautiful paintings from the Belgian Congo and Lake
Kivu.
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