Museum Le Mayeur
Beachfront artist's house of stone and carved wood, filled with impressionist portraits of his dancer wife and muse.
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This guide to Museum Le Mayeur in Sanur follows Belgian painter Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur, who arrived in 1932 and met a fifteen-year-old legong dancer named Ni Pollok, who became his model and, years later, his wife. It traces how his paintings of her, shown in Singapore, funded the stone-and-wood house you're standing in front of, and moves room by room through their life together, from his studio to the pavilion where he once charmed collectors into buying his newest work.
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