Cote et valeur 2024 des tableaux, dessins, peintures de Jean Le Mayeur

If you own a work by or based on the work of artist Jean Le Mayeur and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers will guide you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Thereafter, if you wish to sell your work, we will direct you to the best possible arrangement to obtain the optimum price.

Artist's rating and value

An important member of the luminist movement, Jean Le Mayeur quickly established himself on the art market. Today, the artist's presence on the market is limited, but his works sell for relatively high prices, between €80 and €3,013,400 - a substantial delta, but one that speaks volumes about the value that can be attributed to these works. Thus, a painting by Le Mayeur can fetch tens of thousands of euros at auction, such as his composition Women around the lotus pond, which sold for €3,013,400 in 2016, whereas it was estimated at between €1,738,500 and €2,318,000.   

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The artist's works and style

Jean Le Mayeur is a 20th-century luminist painter, a term referring to a variety of often pointillist Belgian painters with Dutch influences.

He produced mainly oils on canvas, but also drawings.

The life of Jean Le Mayeur

Jean Le Mayeur (1880 - 1958) was born in Brussels. He was the son of Adrien Le Mayeur, also a painter.

He studied architecture and civil engineering at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He then learned painting from his father and the painter Ernest-Blanc Garin. He travels to North Africa and Tunisia, then settles in Bali, where he uses Balinese dancers as models for his canvases.

He presents a first exhibition in Singapore, which meets with great success.

After Indonesian independence, the minister visited the home of Le Mayeur and one of his models, now his wife, and suggested that they turn it into a museum.

Following a bout with cancer, he had to return to Belgium for treatment. He died in Brussels two months after his arrival, leaving his wife to look after the Le Mayeur museum in Bali.

Jean Le Mayeur's imprint on his period

Jean Le Mayeur left his mark on his era through his consistent production and the particularity of his Balinese inspirations. Today, the artist's value continues to rise on the art market.

His works are highly prized, especially the oils on canvas. 

His signature

Not all of Jean Le Mayeur's works are signed.

A photo of his signature can be seen on the work above.

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