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.
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A masterpiece of Divisionism, Portrait of Maria Sèthe, painted in 1891, can be seen at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
Portrait from 1901
The star of the day’s Sotheby’s sale in New York, this large 1901 portrait fetched $1 million, well below its estimate ($1.2 to $1.8 million).
Painting from 1892, not unsold …
Alain Delon was the proud owner of this fine neo-impressionist canvas from 1892. But this did not persuade buyers to pay the $5 to $7 million expected by Christie’s at its New York sales. This is a new technique used by auction houses to avoid unsold works and bad statistics. Works with little chance of […]
Portrait of Verhaeren
A masterpiece of Neo-Impressionist drawing, this 1892 portrait of Verhaeren has aroused the passions of true connoisseurs. Sold for 150,000 euros in 2006, it was offered at the same auction house, Christie’s Paris, on 21 October 2023 with an astonishing estimate of 60-80,000 euros. After a fierce bidding war, it sold for €240,000. This works […]
Brussels Fine Arts Museum – Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
In Brussels, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are not to be outdone. They have an impressive collection of Van Rysselberghe paintings from all the artist’s periods.
A discovery
Sold for 32,000 euros, four times its low estimate, this superb painting from the early 1880s was rediscovered by Millon Belgique in a Brussels estate. Unsurprisingly unknown in Feltkamp’s self-proclaimed catalogue raisonné, the painting was accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Olivier Bertrand, whose authority reassured the market and collectors, as evidenced by the […]
Liège : La Boverie Museum
In Liège, the Musée de la Boverie has a portrait of Maria Van Rysselberghe and a double portrait of the sisters by the painter Willy Schlobach, an early companion of the artist and founding member of the Cercle des XX.
London National Gallery
This extraordinary painting, belonging to the National Gallery in London and bearing the monogram of Théo Van Rysselberghe, was compared in 2006 with the Divisionist works lent to us for our retrospective exhibition. We wanted to take advantage of this temporary laboratory to gain a better understanding of the artist’s technique when he devoted himself […]
Musée de L’annonciade in Saint-Tropez
The small but rich Musée de l’Annonciade in Saint-Tropez has several fine works by Van Rysselberghe.