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FERNAND KHNOPFF (TERMONDE 1858-1921 BRUXELLES)

Lot 122
26.03.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
ID 1389968
Lot 122 | FERNAND KHNOPFF (TERMONDE 1858-1921 BRUXELLES)
Estimate value
€ 25 000 – 35 000
FERNAND KHNOPFF (TERMONDE 1858-1921 BRUXELLES)
Portrait de Marie Verdussen en buste, de profil
monogrammé ‘FK’ et signé (?) ‘FERNAND KHNOPFF’ (en bas à droite)

sanguine, traces de gouache blanche, estompe
34 x 20,7 cm (13 ½ x 10 ½ in.)




Provenance

Marque à sec du fabricant de papier ‘Carl Schleicher & Schüll’, Allemagne, vers 1897.
Famille Verdussen, Bruxelles.
Par descendance, famille Demeure de Haussy, Bruxelles.
M. et Mme Laviolette, Bruxelles (selon Delevoy).
Thomas Deprez Fine Arts, Bruxelles.
Collection particulière belge.



Literature

P. Lambotte, Les Peintres de Portraits, Bruxelles, Paris, 1913, p. 126.
Jean Delville, Notice sur Fernand Khnopff, Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1925, p. 27.
R. L. Delevoy, C. de Groës, G. Ollinger-Zinque, Fernand Khnopff, Paris, 1979, n° 345, ill.



Further details

FERNAND KHNOPFF, PORTRAIT OF MARIE VERDUSSEN, RED CHALK, TRACES OF WHITE BODYCOLOUR, MONOGRAMED AND SIGNED

Alongside repeated motifs of the enigmatic woman, Sibyl or Sphinx, Diana or Salome, Fernand Khnopff devoted himself to the role of fashionable portraitist. He first made his name in child portraiture in 1884, at the Salon des XX, where he exhibited Mademoiselle Van der Hecht (Musée royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, inv. 3980). His reputation soon spread to all of Brussels and European high society. The present drawing is one of a series of red chalk portraits of women executed between 1889 and 1900. Like the Portrait of the Countess of Henri d'Oultremont (private collection, Delevoy, Croës, Ollinger-Zinque, op.cit., p. 320) or that of the Baroness Fernand van Bruggen (private collection, see ibid., p. 325), the Portrait of Marie Verdussen combines the stump technique with an incredibly finely drawn line, tracing the contours of the face and the folds of the clothing. The combination of light and shadow is also reminiscent of the red chalk drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), a source of inspiration for a whole generation of Symbolists, to whom Khnopff dedicated a speech at the Académie Royale de Belgique fifteen years after producing these drawings (session of 4 March 1915). Born into a dynasty of printers and booksellers in the Antwerp region, Marie Verdussen is shown here wearing a high bun and a collard dress, typical of the upper classes of the time.
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