Girl with blue scarf

Details

Gustave De Smet (1877-1943)
Girl with blue scarf
signed 'Gust. De Smet' (lower left)
oil on canvas
75 x 56 cm.
Painted in 1931.

Provenance

Emile Langui, Ghent.

Literature

Emile Langui, 'Gust De Smet en zijn tweede jeugd' in: Vooruit, March 1938 (illustrated).
Emile Langui, Gust. De Smet: De mensch en zijn werk, Brussels, 1945, pl. 91.
L. van Puyvelde, Gustave De Smet, Antwerp, 1949 (cover illustration).
J. van Lerberghe, Kunst in België in de 20e eeuw, Van Ensor tot Constant Permeke, Brussels, 1959, pl. 19.
P. Haesaerts, Sint-Marten-Latem, gezegend oord van de Vlaamse kunst, Antwerp, 1982, no. 197, p. 450.
Piet Boyens, Gust. De Smet, Antwerp, 1989, no. 869, pp. 401, 232 (illustrated and titled 'Vrouw met blauwe sjaal').

Exhibited

Ghent, Kunst- en Letterkring, Gust. De Smet en Olivier Piette, 24 March - 5 April 1935.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Retrospectieve Gustave De Smet, 24 April - 31 May 1936, no. 174.
Liège, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Salon Quadriennal de Belgique, 16 May - 15 June 1936, no. 112.
Ghent, Kunstzaal Ars, Gust. De Smet, 20 March - 1 April 1938.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Les Compagnons de l'Art, October - November 1945, no. 6.
Bern, Kunsthalle/Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Sept Peintres Belges, 31 January - 15 April 1946, no. 53.
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum/Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Vlaamse kunstenaars van de Leie 1890-1940, May - August 1947, no. 61.
Venice, XXIVe Esposizione Internazionale Biennale d'Arte, 6 June - 30 September 1948, no. 76.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Gustave De Smet (1877-1943), May - June 1950, no. 69.
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Peinture Belge contemporaine, June - September 1950, no 33.
Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum, Gust. De Smet, 12 May - 3 June 1951, no. 33.
Ostend, Casino, De Vrouw in de Kunst, 12 July - 31 August 1952, no. 48.
Antwerp, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, De Arbeid in de Kunst, 26 April - 30 June 1952, no. 81.
Charleroi, Cercle Artistique, Salle de la Bourse, XXVIIme Salon, 22 February - 19 March 1953.
Antwerp, Feestzaal Meir, Kunst van Heden, 31 July - 22 August 1954. Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Vlaamse Expressionisten: Constant Permeke, Frits van den Berghe, Gust. De Smet, 11 December 1954 - 16 January 1955, no. 51.
Leuven, Universitair Kunstcentrum, Synthese van het Vlaams Expressionisme, 15 March - 3 April 1955, no. 23.
Sao Paolo, Museu de Arte Moderna, IIe Biennal, June - October 1955. Tournai, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Les Maîtres de l'art contemporain, 22 September - 21 October 1956, no. 19.
Antwerp, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gustave De Smet Retrospectieve tentoonstelling, 1 July - 3 September 1961, no. 223.
Castres, Musée Goya, Peintres Belges contemporains, 1962, no. 4. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Kunst in België 1880-1950: Hommage aan L. en P. Haesaerts, 27 June - 23 August 1978, no. 80. Maarkedal-Etikhove, Centrum voor Kunst en Ambachten, Valerius De Saedeleer en zijn Latemse Vrienden, 1981.
Ostend, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Retrospectieve Gust. de Smet (1877-1943), 25 February - 18 May 1989, no. 124.

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Lot Essay

In 1930 Gustave De Smet moved to the countryside of Deurle. The landscape and the life of the farmers became his main inspiration. We see a minor stylistic change in the paintings he made around that time. These works are characterized by a velvety and soft paint expression. The present lot is considered to be one of the the first works in this new style. The harmonized colour patches provide a balanced composition (see: P. Boyens, Gust. De Smet, Antwerp, 1989. pp. 240, 244).

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