Akarova/Oral work "Portrait of a child". India ink and gilded paint on japanese paper around 1990. TBE+. Signed. Quality frame with glass incus : 50 X 60 cm. The work is accompanied by a book of poems by the artist "He took the key" published in 1992. Marguerite Acarin, known as Akarova, is a Belgian dancer, choreographer, sculptor and painter born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels) in 1904 and died in Ixelles in 1999 (at 95 years). From 1957, Akarova devoted herself mainly to painting and sculpture. She painted mainly religious subjects, portraits and self-portraits, abstract compositions as well as projects for costumes and theater sets. The painter friends she met were Jean-Jacques Gailliard and especially Anto Carte and Floris Jespers who both designed costumes for the dancer. Akarova sculpts portraits and busts of many artists and friends, such as Maurice Carême, Charles Bertin, André Baillon or Géo Libbrecht. Her style is powerful and somewhat stylized. She corresponds with the sculptor Maurice Xhrouet and exhibits at the eleven biennial editions of the Sculpture de plein air de Belgique, at the Maison d'Érasme in Anderlecht.