Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)
La méditation de l'oncle curé (The Meditating Uncle Priest), c. 1917
Pencil, Indian ink, pen, wash, colored crayon on paper
9½ x 10⅛ inches (24 x 25.6 cm.)
Signed 'L.Spilliaert'
Provenance
Sale, Servaerts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 13 December 1995, lot 1089Chantal & Guy Heytens, Brussels-Monaco, 1995-2007
Their sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 3 July 2007, lot 89
With Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, 2009
Private collection, Germany
Sale, Bassenge, Berlin, 1 June 2012, lot 6469, where acquired by
Private collection, United States
Literature
Anne Adriaens-Pannier, Le rêve des autres. Léon Spilliaert illustrateur de Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Hellens …, Bruges 2017, p. 156, ill. 217, p. 156Anne Adriaens-Pannier, forthcoming catalogue raisonné, no. 20