“I was born
in Tourcoing
: fatherless the following year.
All my youth was spent near the banks of the Scheldt: college in Roubaix, but vacations partly in Roeselare and Ghistel.
And as soon as, around the age of 15, I met my friend Paul, it was all the blue stone paths from Evregnies to Esquelmes, from Leers to Molembaix",
confides literary Eugène Leroy during his exhibition at the Veranneman Gallery in Brussels in 1970 (
Eugène Leroy, Touching painting as painting touches you, writings and interviews, 1970-1998
, L'Atelier contemporain).
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Born in 1910 in Tourcoing and died in 2000 in Wasquehal, this scholar who teaches Latin and Greek, but considers that painting is his
"real work"
, lived and worked all his life in the Lille metropolitan area (studies at the École des Fine Arts in Lille, teaching in Roubaix).
He is the quintessential northerner.
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