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Small Face 6
5 x 7 | $500

Rein de Lege
Acrylic on Canvas and Panel
Rein de Lege is not the first painter in his family: His grandfather, Ari Borel, to whom he was very near worked as an artist. Ari Borel supported his grandson with living an artist’s example and encouraging him in his first drawing attempts.

At the age of sixteen, Rein de Lege started studying at Rijksakademie Amsterdam School of Art (1971 – 1975). He ran through the classic education of drawing and painting with special attention to model drawing. In 1977, he changed to Akademie Minerva in Groningen (1977 – 1980) where he continued his education. Besides drawing and painting, he focused on graphic art, etching and lithography.

After visiting Barcelona on a holiday in 1978, Rein de Lege was so fascinated by the life in the streets and the bars of the “barrio chino” (the Chinese quarter) that after several visits over the years he decided to take up permanent residence in the capital of Catalonia (1988) where he continues to live to this day. The drawings of the lively neighborhood of the old part of the town was and is very inspiring and still has an echo in his current works. During the week, the painter usually works in a more rural area next to Barcelona, near Sitges.

Rein de Lege was born in October 1954 in Rotterdam. His work can be found in several highly notable private collections and was featured in Art Miami in 2006.