Museum Le Mayeur
>Le Mayeur Museum is located in the Sanur Beach area of tourism, the City of Denpasar, Bali Province. This is the first museum houses an A Belgian artist named Adrien Jean Le mayeur. Le mayeur is a patrician Sweden desperate to leave the house because it is prohibited by the family to develop talent of painting.

Le mayeur then decided to travel around the world and finally arrived in Bali in the years 1932 through ports in the city of Singaraja. Not long after he continue the journey to the city of Denpasar, and settled in Sanur beach area.
Le Mayeur initially intend to visit only eight months. However, see the beauty of nature and beauty of Balinese dancers, Le mayeur burning champion to establish the home and studio painting at the edge of the Sanur Beach. A dancer named legong Ni Nyoman Polok a model of his paintings to make love. They eventually married.

Story is quite touching their lives. Ni Nyoman Polok actually want to have children of her with Le Mayeur. But this was rejected by her husband. The reason because I Nyoman Polok is a model of painting. It is feared the beauty of the body will be lost when she got pregnant and giving birth. But the pair have no descendants until the end of his life.
Home and studio painting, which was established Lemayeur at the edge of the Sanur Beach and dedicated as a museum. Through a letter of elvish written in 1957, when the pair agreed that Le Mayeur-Ni Nyoman Polok have died, But their home in the Sanur Beach will be submitted to the government as a museum.
Le Mayeur works amounted to 88 of painting and made between the years 1921 to 1957. His works are in various media. Not only on the canvas, his paintings are also made in the media on hardboard, plywood, paper, even gunny. This is because Le Mayeur had trouble getting shipments of Canvas from Sweden during the Japanese colonial occupation.
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