Miette (Emilie) Braive

Gouache, signed lower right. Titled 'L''Eveil' on the back.
Dimensions: 65 cm x 50 cm. Beautifully framed.
Miette (Emilie) Braive (1916-2000) Belgium. Miette Braive studied classical painting in Belgium, but almost immediately after her studies she left for Paris where she took lessons at the academy of the French artist André L'Hote. For the first two decades she worked with L'Hote and exhibited with him. Because she was rather small, L'Hote called her Miette instead of Emilie, her real name. Miette literally means 'crumb'. She would henceforth sign her paintings with Miette. The influence of L'Hote has always remained visible in her work; a lively palette, with subjects ranging from pure, non-objective abstract, cubist paintings and gouaches.