Details
Gustave van de Woestyne (1881-1947)
La mère et son enfant
signed and dated 'Gve van de Woestijne 1928' (lower left); and signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
209 x 190 cm.
Painted in 1928.
Provenance
J. Komkommer, The Hague.
Galeries Apollo, Brussels.
Anonymous sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 10 March 1964, lot 526.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 2004, lot 41.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Haesaerts, Saint Martin Laethem: le village élu de l'art Flamand, Brussels, 1970, no. 804, p. 500 (illustrated).
Emily Ansenk (a.o.), Realisme verzameld: hoogtepunten uit de collectie, Zwaag, 2005, p. 40.
Ansenk 2006, pp. 146-147, no. 251 (illustrated).
P. Boyens, Bevriende Meesterschilders: Valerius De Saedeleer en Gustave Van De Woestyne, Zwaag, 2008, no. 44, pp. 76-77 (illustrated).
Van der Giessen, pp. 54-55 (illustrated).
Robert Hoozee, Cathérine Verleysen, Gustave Van De Woestyne, Ghent, 2010, no. 131, p. 232 (illustrated p. 130).
Exhibited
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gustave Van De Woestyne, 13 June - 13 September 1981, no. 91.
Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gustave Van De Woestyne, 27 March - 27 June 2010, no. 131.
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