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Leon Spilliaert
Léon Spilliaert is born in Ostend in 1881, the city where he spends his life and which is the main source of his inspiration. Early on, he engages into an intense introspection. His pictorial work, sadly, is full of loneliness tinged with sorrow. Of his night walks in the desert seaside resort, the artist relates the views of nocturnal empty spaces (beaches, sea, dams, alleys and squares). Spilliaert frequents the Belgian Symbolism (Hellens, Verhaeren, Maeterlink) and is close to the painter...
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Biography of Leon Spilliaert
Léon Spilliaert is born in Ostend in 1881, the city where he spends his life and which is the main source of his inspiration. Early on, he engages into an intense introspection. His pictorial work, sadly, is full of loneliness tinged with sorrow. Of his night walks in the desert seaside resort, the artist relates the views of nocturnal empty spaces (beaches, sea, dams, alleys and squares). Spilliaert frequents the Belgian Symbolism (Hellens, Verhaeren, Maeterlink) and is close to the painter James Ensor. Influenced by Edvard Munch, Fernand Knnopff, Degouve of Nuncques, but also by Nietzsche and Lautreamont, tragedy reigns in his work. The artist performs many self-portraits that play with shadows and the light treatment of clear and obscure that give them a disturbing expression. Spilliaert uses almost exclusively watercolor, ink, gouache, pastels and crayons. He is man of disturbing solitude, hallucinated faces, endless vistas, and enigmatic silhouettes. The artist surprises, overthrows and invents a symbolism of the inner night leaving his mark on Belgian art in the first half of the twentieth century. "My life has been sad and lonely, with a huge cold around me. I've always been afraid, "writes the artist. Spilliaert dies in Brussels in 1946.
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Sea in the twilight
1925 Gouache on paper, signed and dated in the lower left by the artist. WithoutCatalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
* « Estampes et illustrations - Prints and Illustrations », Xavier Tricot, Ed. Petraco-Pandora, Anvers, 1994
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* « Léon Spilliaert », Frank Edebau, coll. Monographie de l'art belge n°2, Ed. Sikkel, Anvers, 1950* « Léon Spilliaert », catalogue d'expositions, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Ed. Association française d'action artistique, Paris, 1981
* « Léon Spilliaert 1881-1946 », P. Roberts-Jones et autres, catalogue d'expositions, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts et Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais, Paris et Bruxelles, 1982
* « Léon Spilliaert - Oeuvres de jeunesse 1900-1918 », Ed. Musee-Galerie de la Seita, Paris, 1997
* « Spilliaert - Le regard de l'âme », Anne Adriaens-Pannie, Claire Van Damme, Ludion Ed., Anvers, 2006
* « Léon Spilliaert - Un esprit libre », Anne Adriaens-Pannier et autre, Ludion Ed., Anvers, 2007
* « Léon Spilliaert - Vie et œuvre », Norbert Hostyn, Ed. Stichting Kunstboek, Oostkamp (Belgique), 2009
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