Lot 43
  • 43

Henri Evenepoel

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Description

  • Henri Evenepoel
  • LE LIT ROSE or VUE DE MON LIT or MA CHAMBRE
  • signed with initials h. e. and dated 96 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 32.5 by 41cm.
  • 12 3/4 by 16 1/8 in.

Provenance

Dr Edmond Destrée, Brussels (acquired from the artist in 1898)
Mme A. Destrée, Brussels (by descent from the above)
Sale: Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 14th November 1927, lot 4
J. Chomé-Destrée, Ixelles
Sale: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 20th March 1973, lot 82
Marcel Mabille, Rhode Saint Genèse (purchased at the above sale) 
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Brussels, Cercle Artistique de Bruxelles, 1898
Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Exposition H. Evenepoel, 1913, no. 11
Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Henri Evenepoel, 1932, no. 56
Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, Cercle artistique et littéraire. XXIIe Salon, 1948, no. 13 
Antwerp, Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts, Evenepoel, 1994, no. 44

Literature

Paul Lambotte, Catalogue de l'œuvre de Henri Evenepoel, Brussels, 1908, mentioned p. 101
Paul Colin, La Peinture belge depuis 1830, Brussels, 1930, fig. 314, illustrated p. 326
Luc & Paul Haesaerts, Flandre. Essai sur l'art flamand depuis 1880: L'Impressionnisme, Paris, 1931, vol. I, detail illustrated p. 462
André Rieux, 'Les Arts plastiques. A la découverte d'un peintre. Evenepoel au Musée d'Anvers', in Germinal, Brussels, 19th July 1953, no. 193, p. 13
Francis E. Hyslop, Henri Evenepoel, Belgian Painter in Paris 1892-1899, 1975, pp. 141 & 143
Danielle Derrey-Capon, 'Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint', in Henri Evenepoel, Brussels, 1994, no. 127, illustrated p. 253

Catalogue Note

Probably painted in June 1896, this work depicts a view of the artist's room at 21bis avenue de La Motte-Picquet. Bonnard's poster for La Revue Blanche of 1864 is visible on the wall behind the artist's bed.