Auction on April 10th 2025 in Paris at Christie’s

Never before seen on the art market, this beautiful canvas will be auctioned by Christie’s in Paris on April 10th. Blonde nude or Nu de dos (in front of the mirror)Estimated at 70/100,000 euros.Olivier Bertrand certificateWill be included in the catalogue raisonné prepared by Olivier Bertrand Signed with teh monogram (lower left) oil on canvas […]

Côte d’Opale

Côte d’Opale is an exquisite little picture painted around 1900 by the artist, who was probably on holiday at the home of his friends Laure and Georges Flé, with whom he had a habit and from whom he travelled up and down the coast, working tirelessly to produce some very fine portraits and landscapes of […]

Breaking news! Wrong attribution

Sold for $5,000 on 28 July in New York, this painting of the painter Théo Van Rysselberghe is NOT by Théo Van Rysselberghe. It is not a forgery but a work by another artist (perhaps his pupil Suzanne Wehler-Schlumberger). An interesting document, executed after the model around the 1920s. If the painting had been by […]

Denise painted 1889

With his sublime painting La petite Denise, painted in 1889, Théo Van Rysselberghe entered the Metropolitan Museum in New York. By an amusing coincidence, Denise Maréchal was his niece by marriage, and also the niece of Georges Lemmen, who painted at least one portrait of her. A few years later, Théo Van Rysselberghe painted another […]

Veere unsold

Sold for €59,000 in 1989 and €82,000 in 1998, this view of Veere was offered by Bonhams on 21 November 2023 in London on behalf of a very greedy and optimistic Dutch collector. With an audacious estimate of £300,000 / 500,000, it naturally went unsold.