Returning ships on the Zuiderzee.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm.
Signed lower left: vdBerghe Painted in 1919.
The starting of the expressionism has begun. The influence of Fauconier, Gustave de Smet and Jan Sluijters is remarkely present. This counts for composition and use of paint.
Provenance:
Collection Yolande van den Berghe.
Collection Robert de Vos, Amsterdam.
Galery Tzwern-Aisinber, Brussel.
Exposition:
Het Vlaamse Expressionisme in Europese context, Museum v schone kunsten Gent, 1990, nr. 80, pag. 128 afb. in kleur.
Literature:
Emile Langui, Frits van den Berghe, Brussel 1966 no.70 w ill.. b/w.
Adriaan Venema, De Ballingen 1914-1921,Amsterdam 1979, ill b/w pag. 125.
Piet Booyens, St Martens Latem, Kunstenaarsdorp in Vlaanderen, Tielt 1992, fig. 142, pag. 417 ill. in color.
Robert Hozee, Moderne kunst in Belgie, 1900-1940, 1992, blz. ill. in color.
S. van Bellingen, 1998, pag 24.
