Presented and sold by Sotheby’s as a work by Théo Van Rysselberghe, this attractive painting—which I examined in New York in 2014—is undoubtedly decorative with its shimmering colours and bears a stamp described as a ‘studio stamp’. This term refers to the stamp affixed by the heirs of a deceased artist to unsigned works still […]
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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 […]