ART: The Hippocrates by Artist Peter Engels Sold for 45,000 Euros
ANTWERP, Belgium, February 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Master portraitist Peter Engels painted Hippocrates, the father of medicine. Bart Maes of the organic food company Noble-House and art collector paid 45,000 euros for the painting.
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The Greek philosopher Hippocrates lived 400 years BC. Even in his era, he urged people to stay healthy with natural, unrefined foods. He spoke the wise words "Let food be your medicine", the philosophy at Noble-House.
"What contemporary international artist can revive better a 2500 year old character head than Peter Engels," says art collector Bart Maes. Engels has studied the few remaining sculptures that were made of the ancient Greek philosopher and brought him back to life on a large canvas. The penetrating and breath-taking magnum opus is quite contemporary at the same time. The painting actually conceals Hippocrates' wise words. In Greek, obviously.
Noble-House's organic brand Amanprana offers several primeurs, among which extra virgin oils, (edible) cosmetics, coconut blossom sugar (containing many anti-oxidants), cocoa (as a healthy and lean sports drink), and exclusive matcha tea. If possible, these articles are all fair trade and fair world. Amanprana stands for "serene vitality", and so is their communication: serene, useful, and artistic.
In the past, Peter Engels also painted the portrait of Gandhi, which appears in the international communication of Noble-House for their Amanprana Gula Java coconut blossom sugar. In 1939, Gandhi claimed that coconut blossom sugar could solve world poverty. As the coconut blossom juice quickly ferments, the sugar needs to be prepared immediately on the spot, so local people can benefit from it.
Earlier on, Peter Engels has painted several great world citizens in a most striking way on canvas. In Italy, he produced the very last portrait of Luciano Pavarotti weeks before his death. The portrait of Nelson Mandela appeared on the largest billboard in the world of Times Square in New York on Mandela's birthday. Prince Albert of Monaco bought the portrait of Grace Kelly from Peter Engels. The painter met Roger Moore, Toots Thielemans, and Karl Lagerfeld and painted their portraits.
Currently, the Hippocrates masterpiece is in Nuremberg (Germany), where it gets a place of honour at the Noble-House stand during Biofach, the world's leading organic fair. Later, it will get its definitive spot at the Noble-House premises. The painting will appear in the company's international brochure, printed at 250,000 copies and in 10 languages.
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SOURCE Noble House NV
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