Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)
Port de pêche, Ostende, 1923
Indian ink, watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper
19¾ x 25½ inches (50.1 x 64.7 cm.)
Signed & dated 'L. Spilliaert 1923'
Provenance
Sale, Guillaume Campo, Antwerp, 25 October 1997, lot 384Private collection, Belgium
Sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 7 December 2016, lot 76, where acquired by
Private collection, United States
Exhibitions
Antwerp, Ronny van de Velde, Léon Spilliaert, 13 November 1998 - 23 January 1899, cat. 125, ill., p. 242Ostend, Venitiaanse Gaanderijen, Brise d'Ostende: Léon Spilliaert en Ostende, 3 June - 17 September 2006
Boston, McMullen Museum of Art, Nature's Mirror. Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, 10 September - 10 December 2017, no. 122
Literature
Anne Adriaens-Pannier, Léon Spilliaert ou la beauté d’intelligence de coeur, 1998, p. 230, cat. 125, ill. p. 242Anne Adriaens-Pannier, Spilliaert, le regard de l'âme, 2006, no. 228, p. 166
Anne Adriaens-Pannier, "The Four Seasons of Léon Spilliaerts Mind", in: Nature’s Mirror. Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, 2017, p. 108
Anne Adriaens-Pannier, Léon Spilliaert. From the Depths of the Soul, Brussels, 2019, ill. 228, p. 166
Anne Adriaens-Pannier, forthcoming catalogue raisonné, no. 8