Young bather.
Oil on board 43 x 33 cm.
Monogram '04 upper right.
Painted in 1904.
Like many of his work, after some time they were used to design a poster. In this case it served as a poster for the "Libre Esthetique" exhibition in 1914 at Bruxelles. It was the first exhibition inwhich the Brabantine fauvists like Jean Brusselmans, Philibert Cockx, Anne-Pierre de Kat, Medard Maertens a.o. were admitted.
Provenance:
Galery Giroux nr.380, inbreng nr. 293 (etiket a dos).
Galery giroux nr. 293 inbreng nr. 38 (etiket a dos).
Litterature:
Georges Lemmen by Roger Cardon, Antwerpen 1990, page 475, the affiches are demonstrated and the painting is discussed.
Will be included in the oeuvre cataloque in preparation by "The Belgian Art Institute".
