Details
Frits Van den Berghe (1882-1939)
Le Fakir
signed 'FBerghe' (lower right)
oil, gouache and watercolour on paper
57.5 x 47cm.
Executed in 1925
Provenance
Jean Pirard, Verviers/Brussels, 1936.
Anon. sale, Pierre Bergé & Associés Brussels, 12 December 1979, lot 327.
Anon. sale, St.-John Ghent, 10-12 October 1981, lot 126.
Anon. sale, Campo Antwerp, 26 April 1983, lot 434.
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 24 June 1986, lot 345.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
E. Langui, Frits Van den Berghe; Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Brussels 1966, no. 181 (illustrated).
E. Langui, Frits Van den Berghe. The Man and his Work, Antwerp 1968, no. 181.
P. Boyens, Frits Van den Berghe 1883-1939, Antwerp 1999, no. 404 (illustrated, p. 411).
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Les Neuf, 1926.
Antwerp, Feestzaal Meir, LArt Contemporain, 1932, no. 301.
Antwerp, Galerij Janus, Frits van den Berghe, 1935.
Special notice
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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