Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres

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1880 - 1958

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Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres (9 February 1880 – 31 May 1958) was a Belgian painter from Brussels who lived the last part of his life in Bali. He was married to Ni Pollok, a famous balinese dancer. She would became his wife and muse.

Le Mayeur arrived at Bali in 1932 and was directly fascinated by the Balinese people and their culture as well as the light, colour and beauty of the island. After his succesfull exhibition in Singapore in 1932, his works became more widely known and he could afford to buy some land at the Sanur coast. He constructed his house near the beach. Although he was supposed to stay at Bali for 8 months, he remained there for the rest of his life. During the Japanese occupation he was put under house arrest but was able to paint. During this period he painted on rice sacks. After the war his reputation grew steadily.
After the Indonesian Independence from the Netherlands in 1956, Le Mayeur could convince the Minister for Education and Culture to have the house and its contents preserved after their death as a museum.

On 28 August 1957 a Deed of Conveyance Number 37 was signed, stating that Le Mayeur had given all his possessions including the land, his house with all its contents to Ni Pollok as a gift. And at the same moment, Ni Pollok then conveyed what she had inherited from her husband to the Government of Indonesia to be used as a museum.

In 1958 Le Mayeur suffered from a severe ear cancer, and accompanied by Ni Pollok he returned to Belgium to have a medical treatment. After two months in Belgium, on 31 May 1958 the 78-year-old painter died and was buried in Ixelles, Brussels. Ni Pollok then returned home to take care of her house which had become the Le Mayeur Museum. She stayed there until her death on 18 July 1985 at the age of 68.
Nowadays the house is still a museum with the works of Le Mayeur

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