Georges Lemmen
Belgian, 1865-1916
Bourgeois Interior
INV-2290
Georges Lemmen
Belgian, 1865-19161890/91
Bourgeois Interior
Georges Lemmen Belgian, 1865-1916 →charcoalpaper
Date
1890/91
Medium
Charcoal, with stumping and black Conté crayon, with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper, fixed
Dimensions
47 × 59.3 cm (18 9/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Suzanne and Marjorie Pochter and Print and Drawing Funds
This important study for a lost painting of the same name made its debut at the annual exhibition of the Belgian avant-garde society Les XX (The Twenty) in 1891. Georges Seurat had shown A Sunday on La Grand Jatte (1884/86; in the Art Institute’s collection) there just four years before. The most ambitious of Lemmen’s first Neo-Impressionist works, the composition depicts his sister, mother, and grandmother.
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