Mercédès Legrand

Mercédès Legrand (1893–1945) was a Spanish-born Belgian visual artist, illustrator, and poet. She was known for her work as a painter, enameller, and potter. She is also known as Mercedes Legrand.

Early life and education Mercédès Legrand was born on 14 July 1893, Almodóvar del Campo, Castilla–La Mancha, Spain to Belgian parents. The first ten years of her childhood were spent in Spain, before she moved abroad to Brussels, Belgium, England and Germany for schooling.

In 1921, she married a classmate , who was an art critic and painter, they settled in Paris in the 1920s.

Legrand, Van Gindertael, and Michel de Goeye co-created Hélianthe, an avant-garde arts review magazine. In 1941, the family moved to Limoges, where her husband was working. During this period she started working in enamels, which were to become an important part of her work. and .

In 2020, a posthumous retrospective exhibition of Legrand's artwork, Mercédès Legrand (1893–1945): à fleur de toile: exposition, was shown at the Musée du Mont-de-Piété de Bergues in Bergues, France, and at Famenne & Art Museum (FAM) in Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium.

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