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Theo Van Rysselberghe

Theo Van Rysselberghe Sailboats and Estuary oil painting on canvas
Sailboats and Estuary
Painting ID::  11595
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Theo Van Rysselberghe Sailboats and Estuary oil painting on canvas



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  Theo Van Rysselberghe
  Belgian Pointillist Painter, 1862-1926 was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century. Born in Ghent to a French-speaking bourgeois family, he studied first at the Academy of Ghent under Theo Canneel and from 1879 at the Academy of Brussels under the directorship of Jean-François Portaels. The North African paintings of Portaels had started an orientalist fashion in Belgium. Their impact would strongly influence the young Theo van Rysselberghe. Between 1882 and 1888 he made three trips to Morocco, staying there a total of one year and half. Barely 18 years old, he already participated at the Salon of Ghent, showing two portraits. Soon afterwards followed his Self-portrait with pipe (1880), painted in somber colours in the Belgian realistic tradition of that time. His Child in an open spot of the forest (1880) already departs from this style and he sets his first steps towards impressionism.
  Sailboats and Estuary
  ca 1892-1893 1' 7 3/4'' x 2'(50 x 61 cm)

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