Saint-Clair. Commune of Le Lavandou (Var).

Théo Van Rysselberghe’s house and studio, designed by his brother Octave, an architect. The painter explored the region from the early years of the century and produced countless beautiful compositions featuring bathers, one of his favourite subjects. He also painted numerous still lifes, landscapes and portraits of many friends and models. An insatiable worker and avid traveller, he travelled down to Sicily via Rome, Florence, Venice and the Amalfi coast. Although he kept his apartment on Rue Vanneau in Paris, he settled permanently in Saint-Clair around 1910.

Known and sought after by the world’s greatest museums for his Divisionist paintings produced between 1888 and 1894, Théo Van Rysselberghe is a painter who still needs to be studied in depth. We are working on this, notably through the hundreds of unpublished letters exchanged with his friends, the painters Signac and Cross.