Lot 2
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Emile Claus

Estimate
35,000 - 55,000 GBP
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Description

  • Emile Claus
  • Fog, Lanternes allumées
  • signed with initials lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 43 by 46cm., 17 by 18in.

Provenance

Galerie Patrick Derom, Brussels
Purchased from the above by the present owner before 1998

Exhibited

Pontoise, Musée Tavet-Delacour; Charleroi, Musée des beaux-arts, Néo et post-impressionnistes belges dans les collections privées de Belgique, 1990, no. 12, illustrated in the catalogue (as Londres. Fog, Lanternes allumées)
Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, L'Impressionnisme et le Fauvisme en Belgique, 1990, illustrated in the catalogue (as Fog, Lanternes allumées)
La Louvière, Musée Ianchelevici, Artistes belges en 1914-1918: 80ème anniversaire de l'Armistice du 11 novembre, 1998, illustrated in the catalogue (as Fog, Lanternes allumées)

Literature

Serge Goyens de Heusch, L'Impressionnisme et le Fauvisme en Belgique, Anvers & Paris, 1988, p. 231, illustrated

Condition

The canvas has not been lined. Ultra-violet light reveals no visible sign of retouching. This work is in good original condition and ready to hang. Presented in a decorative gilt frame with a beige inner slip.
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Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1916.