ATTRIBUÉ À GUSTAVE VAN DE WOESTYNE (1881-1947)... Lot n° 32
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Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Huile sur toile
Oil on canvas 57,3 x 49 cm
22 1/2 x 19 in.
PROVENANCE
Collection particulière, Autriche
An enigmatic painter with unclassifiable works, Gustave Van de Woestyne puzzles and questions. Born in Ghent in 1881, his talent was soon noticed and he attended the Ghent Academy at the age of fourteen. This dreamy young man was sent with his brother to Laethem-Saint-Martin for health reasons and it was then that his vocation as a painter was confirmed. His work, which was initially part of the Symbolist movement, reached a real turning point after the First World War. He turned towards German Expressionism and the New Objectivity, while retaining his originality and independence. He portrays a reality tinged with strangeness, darkness and mysticism. His singularity can be explained by his very heterogeneous inspirations. Gustave Van de Woestyne was not interested in the Impressionists and the French avant-garde, but he did attach great importance to the artists of the Italian Renaissance, but also to the primitives of the Northern Schools and the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
The painting we present today is a study of a grandiose Pre-Raphaelite work: John William Waterhouse's Saint Cecilia. It is most probably a work of the artist's youth, perhaps even dating from his academic training.
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