Théo van Rysselberghe

Galerie Hugo Perls, New York
Hirshl & Adler, New York (acquired from the above in 1963)
Galerie Hugo Perls, New York (acquired from the above in 1963)
Hector Monnom, Brussels

Brussels, Musée d'Art Moderne, Les XX, 1891
Paris, Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1891, no. 1212
Ghent, Musée de Beaux-Arts, Théo van Rysselberghe, néo-impressionniste, 1993, no. 40

Ronald Feltkamp, Théo van Rysselberghe, catalogue raisonné, Brussels, 2003, no. 1890-010, illustrated p. 288

Painted in 1890, this peaceful landscape is a view of the Sambre valley in Belgium, not far from the French border. Born in Ghent in 1862, van Rysselberghe became a founding member of Les XX in 1884. Les XX was a group of twenty of the artists who had been rejected by the Salon in Brussels in 1883.  They united to establish a new exhibiting body, which rapidly assumed a position at the forefront of the European avant-garde. Van Rysselberge executed his earliest Neo-Impressionist paintings in 1888, two years after his first contact with Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, but it was not until 1889 that he fully embraced the new style. Active as both a painter and as Octave Maus’ second-in-command at Les XX, van Rysselberghe was one of the principal emissaries between Brussels and Paris.