LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas in the artist's original frame

Measurements:

26.26 in. (66.70 cm.) (height) by 35.63 in. (90.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the monogram and dated 1892 (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Hôtel Brébant,. Exposition des Peintres Néo-Impressionnistes , 1892-93, no. 72. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Les XX , 1893, no. 4 . Paris, Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, 7e Exposition Société des Artistes indépendants , 1893, no. 1288 . Paris, 20 Rue Lafitte, Antoine de La Rochfoucauld-Moline, Groupe des peintres néo-impressionnistes , 1893-94, no. 2 . Vienna, Secession Building, Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs , 1899, possibly no. 51 . Paris, Galerie L.G. Baugin, Autour de Seurat , 1954, no. 6 . New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Neo-Impressionists and Nabis in the Collection of Arthur G. Altschul , 1965, no. 15, illustrated in the catalogue (titled L'Escaut en Amont d'Anvers - Après-Midi ) . London, 4 St. James's Square, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Autour de 1900: l'art Belge (1884-1918) , 1965 . New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Neo-Impressionism , 1968, no. 136, illustrated in the catalogue (titled L'Escaut en amont d'Anvers, après le brouillard ) . New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Belgian Art: 1880-1914 , 1980, no. 90, illustrated in the catalogue . Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Het Landschap in de Belgische Kunst 1830-1914 , 1980, no. 223, illustrated in the catalogue . New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan , 1982 . Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Theo van Rysselberghe néo-impressionniste , 1993, no. 42, illustrated in colour in the catalogue . Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Pointillismus: Auf den Spuren von Georges Seurat / Le Pointillisme, sur les traces de Seurat , 1997-98, no. 119, illustrated in colour in the catalogue . Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Le néo-impressionnisme de Seurat à Paul Klee , 2005, illustrated in colour in the catalogue . Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts & The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Théo van Rysselberghe , 2006, illustrated in colour in the catalogue . Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music , 2014-15, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (titled The Scheldt Upstream from Antwerp, Evening

Literature:

'Les Expositions, Autour de Seurat', in. Connaissance des Arts ,. Paris, 15th June 1954, p. 74. Jean Sutter, Les Néo-Impressionnistes , Paris & Neuchâtel, 1970, illustrated p. 207 . Richard Shone, The Post-Impressionists , London, 1979, no. 179, illustrated p. 155 . Serge Goyens de Heusch, L'impressionnisme et le fauvisme en Belgique , Antwerp, 1988, illustrated in colour p. 197 . Théo van Rysselberghe, neo impressionniste (exhibition catalogue), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ghent, 1993, no. 42, illustrated p. 102 . Ronald Feltkamp, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Catalogue raisonné , Brussels, 2003, no. 1892-009, illustrated p. 294; illustrated in colour p. 14 . Pierre Sanchez, Le Salon des 'XX' et de la Libre Esthétique, Bruxelles 1884-1914 , Dijon, 2012, listed p. 389

Provenance:

Monsieur C.D. (acquired by 1893). Etienne Ader, Paris . Dr Jean Sutter, Paris . Galerie L.G. Baugin, Paris . Arthur G. Altschul, New York (acquired from the above on 29th November 1954. Sold: Sotheby's, New York, 5th November 2002, lot 4) . Purchased at the above sale by the present owner