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FERNAND KHNOPFF (BELGIAN, 1858-1921)
Le Silence de la Neige
signed 'FERNAND/KHNOPFF' (lower left) and inscribed ‘LE SILENCE/ DE LA NEIGE’ (lower right)
blue crayon on paper
21 x 1534 in. (53.2 x 40 cm.)
Executed in 1916.
Provenance
Gregoire family collection
Albert Gregoire, Huy.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 25 November 1982, lot 21.
Private collection, Portugal.
Purchased from the above by the present owner.
Literature
R. Delevoy, C. de Cross and G. Ollinger-Zinque, Fernand Khnopff, Brussels, 1979, p.482, no. 571.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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This is a second very slightly smaller version after the work in the Hamburger Kunsthalle (circa 1916, Inv. no 1972/11 13273 - D.C/O.-Z. no 570, 53 x 40 cm). The composition of the present lot is closely related to Khnopff's work on paper En prière (circa 1916; D.C/O.-Z. 574), which similarly uses the motif of the model's praying hands covering her lips to emphasise the element of silence.

We are grateful to Mrs Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque for confirming the authenticity of the present lot.

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