Emile FABRY
The St Ives Times in March 1916 announced he was painting in St Ives and that he was to remain for the duration of the War. A refugee from Belgium and a highly regarded symbolist painter, Fabry had been commissioned by University College, Cardiff to paint two canvasses, War and Peace. Tovey in his latest historical review of artists in St Ives, Sea Change, treats the reader to a section on 'The symbolist works of Emile Fabry' (Chap 3, section 3.3.)
After the Great War he was asked by Belgian Government to help design a Victory Monument/Memorial.
media
Painter in the symbolist style in watercolours; muralist in mosaic
works and access
Likenesses of the Artist: Memorial Plaque with the artist's likeness and below inscribed: 'Dans cette maison a vécu le peintre symboliste ÉMILE FABRY 1865-1966' ('In this house lived the symbolist painter Émile Fabry 1865-1966') at 1150 rue du Collège Saint-Michel 6 Brussels
Works include: Head and Snakes (1923); War; Peace
exhibitions
Plymouth Art Gallery November 1917
St Ives March 1919
memberships
Royal Academy of Belgium 1923-66
misc further info
references
St Ives Times 10 Mar 1916, 9 Nov 1917, 14 Mar 1919, 21 Mar 1919
Benezit
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p324)
Tovey (2009) St Ives: Social History; (2010) Sea Change