The present panel is a softly rendered, intimate oil painting by Xavier Mellery, presumably showing the first communion of his daughter Lucy and that circumstance could be the reason why, until recently, this work was kept by the heirs. The figure looks very close to the girl depicted in an oil painting kept at the … Continue reading “Xavier Mellery”

Odilon Redon’s Head of Perseus belongs to the best early painted works of heads cuts – flying, hanged, unexpected, in the ether or in water – that are the emblematic key of his oeuvre and can be assigned their places within an entire series of Redon figures. Actually, the present Head of Perseus is one … Continue reading “Odilon Redon”

A terrific and powerful example of Dorignac’s sculpture-like drawings in black. This impressive face of a woman condenses all the major and singular characteristics of Dorignac’s graphic work: the tight frame, the monumentality, the black color, the volume and the dignity given to anonymous working figures. The tenebrous faces of women rising from the golden … Continue reading “Georges Dorignac”

The Cloud was painted circa 1902-1903, a very intense period marked by a great surge in the artist’s talent. The whole of Spilliaert is already there and every aspect of his work can be recognized, with the exception of garish colors which will start appearing in his pieces around 1912-1913. The female image was the … Continue reading “Léon Spilliaert”