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Georges Lemmen (1865-1916)

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Georges Lemmen (1865-1916)

Maisons à la Hulpe - Huizen in Terhulpen

signed with monogram lower right GL, oil on canvas
21 x 26in. (53.4 x 66cm.)

Painted circa 1888
Provenance
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (7705) from whom acquired by the present owner in 1965
Exhibited
Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre-Raphaelite Era, 1848-1914, April-June 1976, no. 8-24, (illustrated p. 191)
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Exposition du Pointillisme, April-May 1985, no. 60 (illustrated in colour, p. 102).This exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, June-July 1985

Lot Essay

In 1888 Georges Lemmen became a member of Le Cercle des XX in Brussels and first exhibited with them in 1889. At the same time he also began to exhibit in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants. The Neo-Impressionist ideas of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac dominated both groups and Lemmen adopted a pointilliste technique from 1890 until the summer of 1894.

Terhulpen is a small rural village situated between Brussels and Waterloo. Many members of Les XX painted extensively in the area during this crucial period in the development of Belgian neo-impressionism.

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