Bourgeois Interior
Georges Lemmen (Belgian, 1865-1916)
1890/91
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
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.
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping and black Conté crayon, with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper, fixed
- Original size
- 47 × 59.3 cm (18 9/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
Museum record · 6 owners · 5 exhibitions
Provenance
- Sold by the artist to Édouard Kohn (1825–1895), Paris, 1891.
- Kunsthandlung Gauss, Munich.
- Allan Frumkin (1926–2002), Chicago, probably by 1963; by descent to his wife, Jean, New York, from 2002.
- Jill Newhouse, New York, 2007.
- Art Research, Feldmeilen, Switzerland.
- Private collection, Belgium, by 2014; sold by Eric Gillis, Brussels, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
Exhibitions
- Brussels, Les XX, Feb. 1891.
- Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 1891.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Chicago Collectors," Sept. 20–Oct. 27, 1963.
- Indianapolis Museum of Art, "The Neo-Impressionist Portrait 1886-1904," June 15–Sept. 7, 2014; also Brussels, ING Cultural Centre, Feb. 19–May 18, 2014.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," Aug. 27, 2016–Jan. 29, 2017, no cat.
