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LÉON SPILLIAERT (1881-1946)

Lot 23
09.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1306096
Lot 23 | LÉON SPILLIAERT (1881-1946)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
LÉON SPILLIAERT (1881-1946)
Phare sur la digue
signed and dated 'L. Spilliaert 08' (lower left)
brush and India ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on paper
25 ½ x 19 ¾ in. (64.8 x 50.3 cm.)
Executed in 1908




Provenance

(Probably) L'Intérieur [Léon Sneyers], Brussels.
Carlo Van den Bosch, Antwerp.
Galerie Govaert, Ostend.
Acquired from the above in the 1970s, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

F. P. Edebau, Léon Spilliaert 1881-1946, Antwerp, 1982, p. 69 (illustrated p. 48).
A. Adriaens-Pannier, Léon Spilliaert: le regard de l'âme, Gent, 2006, p. 109 (illustrated p. 137).
A. Adriaens-Pannier, Léon Spilliaert, from the Depths of the Soul, Brussels, 2019, no. 137, p. 109 (with incorrect dimensions).



Exhibited

Frankfurt am Main, Kunstverein, Pastelle und Zeichnungen des Belgischen Symbolismus, May - July 1988, no. 217, p. 312 (illustrated p. 265).
Ostend, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, From Ensor to Delvaux, October 1996 - February 1997, p. 174 (illustrated).
Antwerp, Ronny van de Velde, Léon Spilliaert of de schoonheid van een wijs hart, November 1998 - January 1999, no. 42, pp. 276 & 284 (illustrated p. 126).
Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Léon Spilliaert, April - June 2003, no. 73, p. 156 (illustrated p. 157); this exhibition later travelled to Himeji, City Museum of Art, June - July 2003 and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, August - September 2003.
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Léon Spilliaert, Un esprit libre, September 2006 - February 2007, no. 98, p. 73 (illustrated p. 95).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Léon Spilliaert, February - May 2020, no. 61, pp. 26 & 131 (illustrated p. 131 and as a frontispiece); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June - September 2020.
Paris, Musée d'Orsay and Grand Palais, Léon Spilliaert. Lumière et Solitude, October 2020 - January 2021, no. 72, p. 102 (illustrated p. 103).
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Léon Spilliaert: Avec la mer du Nord, January - May 2023, no. 24, p. 57 (illustrated).
Neuss, Clemens Sels Museum, Gewagte Visionen: George Minne und Léon Spilliaert, Vom Symbolismus zum Expressionismus, October 2023 - January 2024, no. 41, pp. 47 & 152 (illustrated p. 120).
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