Canalhouses at Amsterdam (Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal)
Oil on canvas 56 x 46 cm.
Signed lower left: Gustave de Smet
Painted in 1915
The start of the expressionism is a fact. Evidence are the colored planes and the free way of forms.
Provenance:
A.O. Lauwers, Bussum (The Netherlands)
J. Lauwers, Kalmthout (Belgium)
De Vuyst, Lokeren (B), II 1983, nr. 103, with coloured illustration
De Vuyst, Lokeren(B), X 1985, nr 89, with coloured illustration
Christie's, London, X 1988
Litterature:
Piet Boyens, "Gustave de Smet" Kroniek, Mercatorfonds, 1989, ill. blz 329, nr. 281.
