Georges Lemmen
Belgian, 1865-1916
Portrait of Anna Boch
INV-2096
Georges Lemmen
Belgian, 1865-19161894
Portrait of Anna Boch
Georges Lemmen Belgian, 1865-1916 →drawings (visual works)prints and drawing
Date
1894
Medium
Conté crayon on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
34 × 29.8 cm (13 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Suzanne and Marjorie Pochter Fund
Adapting Seurat’s signature drawing method, Lemmen combined Realist and decorative techniques in this portrait of Anna Boch, a grande dame of the Belgian art scene. Born into an upper-middle-class family dedicated to music and the visual arts, Boch played the piano, organ, and violin and was a painter associated with the Belgian Neo-Impressionists. In 1885 she joined Les XX (The Twenty), a group of artists dissatisfied with the strictures of the official Salon who had decided to exhibit together, and was its sole female member. A promoter of the work of Vincent van Gogh, she bought his Red Vineyard painting in 1890, thought to be the only sale the artist made during his lifetime.
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