Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Spilliaert catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Anne Adriaens-Pannier.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION
Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)
Paysage nocturne, poteau de signalisation
Details
Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)
Paysage nocturne, poteau de signalisation
signed 'L.Spilliaert' (in pencil; lower right) and signed 'Léon Spilliaert' (cropped; upper left)
gouache, crayon and wash on paper
14¾ x 20 5/8 in. (37.4 x 52.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1907
Paysage nocturne, poteau de signalisation
signed 'L.Spilliaert' (in pencil; lower right) and signed 'Léon Spilliaert' (cropped; upper left)
gouache, crayon and wash on paper
14¾ x 20 5/8 in. (37.4 x 52.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1907
Provenance
The artist's estate.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1990s.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1990s.
Literature
F.-C. Legrand, Léon Spilliaert et son époque, Brussels, 1981, no. 48 (illustrated p. 190).
A. Adriaens-Pannier, Léon Spilliaert ou la beauté de l'intelligence de coeur, Antwerp, 1998, p. 108 (illustrated p. 22).
A. Adriaens-Pannier, Léon Spilliaert ou la beauté de l'intelligence de coeur, Antwerp, 1998, p. 108 (illustrated p. 22).
Exhibited
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand-Palais, Léon Spilliaert, September - November 1981, no. 21 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Brussels, Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique.
Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Léon Spilliaert, October - November 1984, no. 5 (illustrated).
Montreal, Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Léon
Spilliaert, February - March 1985, no. 6; this exhibition later travelled to Winnipeg, Art Gallery.
Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville, L'art en Belgique, December 1990 - March 1991, no. 251 (illustrated).
Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Léon Spilliaert, October - November 1984, no. 5 (illustrated).
Montreal, Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Léon
Spilliaert, February - March 1985, no. 6; this exhibition later travelled to Winnipeg, Art Gallery.
Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville, L'art en Belgique, December 1990 - March 1991, no. 251 (illustrated).
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