Jean Brusselmans (1884-1953)

Nu - Naakt op de rug gezien

Details

Jean Brusselmans (1884-1953)
Nu - Naakt op de rug gezien
signed and dated lower left Jean Brusselmans 1906
oil on canvas laid down on board
70 x 50 cm

Provenance

Gustave van Geluwe, Brussels, no. 198

Literature

Les Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1934, p. 5
Ch. De Maeyer, Apollo Ephémérides, "Jean Brusselmans", Brussels 29 May 1943 (ill.)
Robert-L. Delevoy, Jean Brusselmans, Brussels 1972, no. 18

Exhibited

Brussels, Gallery Apollo, Les Constructeurs, 1943
Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, Cercle Royal Artistique et Litteraire, 29e Salon, Retrospective Jean Brusselmans, 1955, no. 27

Lot Essay

The painting is signed and wrongly dated on a later date by the artist The actual date of the painting is 1906. The work is the only surviving fragment of the large painting "Het Tranenlandschap", a composition inspired by Vergilius and made under the influence by Courbet. When the piece was refused for the Concours Godecharle Brusselmans was so furious he torn the piece, an act he later regretted very much.

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