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Lot 39
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Léon Spilliaert

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Léon Spilliaert
  • Femme a la fenetre
  • signed L Spilliaert lower right and dated 1928 lower left
  • gouache, watercolour, brush and ink and pencil on paper
  • 74.5 by 55.5cm., 29¼ by 21¾in.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the grandfather of the present owner

Exhibited

Ostend, Galerie en Leeszaal, Casino, Overzichstentoonstelling Léon Spilliaert, 1947
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, L'Art flamand d'Ensor à Permeke, 1970
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, & Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum: Léon Spilliaert, 1981-82, pp. 177 & 211, no. 105

Literature

Francine-Claire Legrand, Léon Spilliaert et son époque, Antwerp, 1981, p. 177, fig. 147, illustrated

Condition

Unexamined out of the frame and under glass. Executed on wove paper. There are four dark spots in the lower centre which are likely original. This work is in good original condition. The colours are more vibrant than in the catalogue illustration, especially the blue of the windowsill. Held in a cream-painted frame, without a mount, under glass.
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