Expertise…

Confronted with a work to be analyzed, an artist’s expert calls on more than his or her first, instinctive impression (which in reality is the instantaneous sum of years of research and examination), his or her memory, emotion and the most advanced possible knowledge of the artist, his or...

Fishing boats in Zeeland

Painted in Veere in 1906 by Théo Van Rysselberghe, this fine painting is unsurprisingly missing from the Feltkamp catalogue raisonné, but will be accompanied by a certificate from Olivier Bertrand, the artist’s expert who is preparing a scientific catalogue raisonné based on unpublished archives.The painting was exhibited in 1908...

Knokke 1894

This beautiful painting by Théo Van Rysselberghe was painted in Knokke in 1894 during a summer spent with his friend, the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. It depicts the typical little houses that can still be found today in the immediate Knokke countryside. Van Rysselberghe painted many fine Neo-Impressionist...

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...

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....

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...