Rue des Fontenelles has dated this piece to the 1920s.
He attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Ghent, where he studied with Jean Delvin. He then enrolled in the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where he studied with Jean-François Portaels. He won the Prix Godecharle there in 1897. Bastien then traveled to Paris, where he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was in Paris when hostilities broke out in what would become the First World War.
Alfred Bastien was a Post-Impressionist painter and watercolourist of landscapes, still lifes and portraits. He travelled on a scholarship to Paris in 1891, where he won the "Prix de Godecharle" in 1897. He also travelled to North Africa, the Belgian Congo, India, Japan, China and the islands of the South Pacific, all of which inspired his work.
Dimensions - 45 x 38 cm
Rue des Fontenelles has dated this piece to the 1920s.
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