Property from a Private European Collection
THÉO VAN RYSSELBERGHE | ESQUISSE POUR L'HEURE EMBRASÉE
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July 29, 01:39 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
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Property from a Private European Collection
THÉO VAN RYSSELBERGHE
1862 - 1926
ESQUISSE POUR L'HEURE EMBRASÉE
signed with the monogram, dated 97 and dedicated à mon ami francis Vielé-Griffin
oil on canvas
60.7 by 80.5cm., 24 by 31¾in.
Framed: 89 by 109cm., 35 by 43in.
Painted in 1897.
We thank Olivier Bertrand for providing additional information on this painting which will be included in his Théo Van Rysselberghe Catalogue raisonné.
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Francis Vielé-Griffin, France (a gift from the artist)
Sale: Frankfurt-am-Main, 9th March 1914
Alfred Walter Von Heymel, Berlin (sold: Berlin, 8th March 1917, lot 80)
Sale: Palais Galliéra, Paris, 8th December 1971, lot 86
Dr. Jean Sutter, Paris
Dr. Oscar Ghez, Geneva
Sale: Me Blache, Versailles, 28th March 1976, lot 86
Private Collection, France (purchased at above sale)
Private Collection, France (by descent from the above. Sold: Christie's, London, 5th February 2008, 212)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
The Hague, Exposition Internationale, 1901 (possibly)
Brussels, La Libre Esthétique, 1913, no. 281
Paris, Galerie de Paris, Les amis de Saint-Tropez, 1961, no. 94
Ghent, MSK, Retrospectieve Théo Van Rysselberghe, 1962, no. 67
Luxemburg, Musée national d'Histoire et d'Art, Théo Van Rysselberghe 1862-1926, 1962, no. 27
Paris, Grand Palais, Les Indépendants à la Belle Epoque 1895-1905, 1966
Anita Brookner, "Current & Forthcoming Exhibitions", in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CIV, no. 715, London, 1962, p. 445
Marie-Jean Chartrain-Hebbelinck, "Les lettres de Van Rysselberghe à Octave Maus", in Bulletin of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, vol. XV, no. 1-2, Brussels, 1966, p. 80
Ronald Feltkamp, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Catalogue raisonné, Brussels, 2003, no. 1897-002, p. 65 & illustrated p. 315 (titled as L'heure embrasée (étude))