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Watercolour, colour pencil and lavis India ink on paper - Sig. - 49 x 63,5 cm (day) - Exhibition labels on the reverse
Exhibition Gal. Isy Brachot, Brussels 1978 "Pastelle und Zeichnungen des Belgischen Symbolismus" Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt 1988, cat. nr. 216 "Léon Spilliaert" MSK, Ostend 1996, cat. nr. 46 ill. "Léon Spilliaert" Museum Het Paleis, Den Haag 1996, cat. nr. 46 ill. "Léon Spilliaert" Gal. Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp 1998-99, p. 81 ill. "Stranden en blikken" Venetiaanse Gaanderijen, Ostend 2002-03, cat. nr. 16 "La Belgique dévoilée" Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 2007 Literature "Léon Spilliaert" Jollivet-Castelot in 'Le Carillon' nr. 174, Ostend 1909, p. 1 "AAA" Christian Fayt Art Gal., feb. 1979, ill. "Léon Spilliaert of de schoonheid van een wijs hart" Anne Adriaens-Pannier/Ronny Van de Velde, Pandora 1998, cat. nr. 46 ill. "Spilliaert. De bezielde blik" Anne Adriaens-Pannier, Ludion 2006, p. 146, nr. 189 ill. To be included in the catalogue raisonné in preparation by Mrs. Anne Adriaens-Pannier Provenance Gal. Isy Brachot, Brussels 1978 Christian Fayt Art Gal., Knokke 1979 ____________________________________ IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE Between 1904 and 1909, Léon Spilliaert creates a series of interiors and still lifes bathing in an isolated, mysterious setting. His attention goes to his immediate environment, the parental home in Ostend, which he subjects to a psychological examination. He also analyzes objects of devotion. They find themselves in a twilight zone and are therefore suitable for contemplation. The accessories in "Crucifix and Globe" happen to unite two poles in the artist's life: religion and his interest in distant lands. It is one of the works that Jollivet Castelot described in his study on Spilliaert: "A crucifix standing on a mantelpiece draped with mauve percaline; the background of the painting is all black, from which Christ appears, in his ivory whiteness, on his Calvary, his face hanging and covered with hair entangled with the sweat of agony." ("Léon Spilliaert" exhibit. cat. by Anne Adriaens-Pannier and Norbert Hostyn, MSK, Ostend 1996, p. 95)