Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)

Portrait de Jean Keller

Details

Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)
Portrait de Jean Keller
signed with monogram and dated '1908' (upper left)
oil on canvas
55 7/8 x 34 1/8 in. (142 x 86.6 cm.)
Painted in 1908

Provenance

Dr. Théodore Keller, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Dr. Jean Keller, Paris (by descent from the above).
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1995.

Literature

R. Feltkamp, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Brussels, 2003, p. 372, no. 1908-003 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Bruxelles, Galerie Georges Giroux, Œuvres de Théo Van Rysselberghe, March 1922, no. 15.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée départemental du Prieuré, Le chemin de Gauguin, Genèse et rayonnement, October 1985-March 1986, p. 210, no. 185.

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Van Rysselberghe catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Olivier Bertrand.

The sitter of the present work, Dr. Jean Keller, was the son of the collector Dr. Théodore Keller, a close friend of the artist who commissioned this work. Van Rysselberghe depicts the younger Keller in front of works from his family’s collection, including Paul Gauguin’s Le Christ vert (now in the collection of the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique) and Auguste Rodin’s Le Minotaure.

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