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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 9, 2024 | Christie's | London | 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale | 23 | $****** - ****** | Phare sur la digue |
Works on Paper
64.8 x 50.2 cm (25.5 x 19.75 in)
brush and India ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on paper
signed and dated "L. Spilliaert 08" (lower left)
(Probably) L"Intérieur [Léon Sneyers], Brussels.
Carlo Van den Bosch, Antwerp.
Galerie Govaert, Ostend.
Acquired from the above in the 1970s, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Frankfurt am Main, Kunstverein, Pastelle und Zeichnungen des Belgischen Symbolismus, May - July 1988, no. 217, p. 312 (illustrated p. 265).
Ostend, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, From Ensor to Delvaux , October 1996 - February 1997, p. 174 (illustrated).
Antwerp, Ronny van de Velde, Léon Spilliaert of de schoonheid van een wijs hart , November 1998 - January 1999, no. 42, pp. 276 & 284 (illustrated p. 126).
Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Léon Spilliaert, April - June 2003, no. 73, p. 156 (illustrated p. 157); this exhibition later travelled to Himeji, City Museum of Art, June - July 2003 and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, August - September 2003.
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Léon Spilliaert, Un esprit libre, September 2006 - February 2007, no. 98, p. 73 (illustrated p. 95).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Léon Spilliaert , February - May 2020, no. 61, pp. 26 & 131 (illustrated p. 131 and as a frontispiece); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d"Orsay, June - September 2020.
Paris, Musée d"Orsay and Grand Palais, Léon Spilliaert. Lumière et Solitude , October 2020 - January 2021, no. 72, p. 102 (illustrated p. 103).
Lausanne, Fondation de l"Hermitage, Léon Spilliaert: Avec la mer du Nord , January - May 2023, no. 24, p. 57 (illustrated).
Neuss, Clemens Sels Museum, Gewagte Visionen: George Minne und Léon Spilliaert, Vom Symbolismus zum Expressionismus , October 2023 - January 2024, no. 41, pp. 47 & 152 (illustrated p. 120).
F. P. Edebau, L é on Spilliaert 1881-1946, Antwerp, 1982, p. 69 (illustrated p. 48).
A. Adriaens-Pannier, Léon Spilliaert: le regard de l"âme , Gent, 2006, p. 109 (illustrated p. 137).
A. Adriaens-Pannier, Léon Spilliaert, from the Depths of the Soul , Brussels, 2019, no. 137, p. 109 (with incorrect dimensions).
LÉON SPILLIAERT (1881-1946)
Phare sur la digue
signed and dated "L. Spilliaert 08" (lower left)
brush and India ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on paper
25 ½ x 19 ¾ in. (64.8 x 50.3 cm.)
Executed in 1908
