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Lot 43
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Georges Lemmen, 1865-1916

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Description

  • Georges Lemmen
  • ÉTUDE POUR LE NU À LA COLOMBE
  • gouache on paper laid down on board
  • 65.5 by 86cm.; 25¾ by 33¾in.

Literature

Roger Cardon, Georges Lemmen (1865-1916), Monographie générale suivie du Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé, Antwerp, 1990, p. 288, illustration in colour of the oil on panel

Catalogue Note

This work is a study for the oil Nu à la colombe dating from 1910 (Stedelijk Museum, Oostende) in which the theme of the nude and the bather comes to the fore in Lemmen's works of the period.