Leon Spilliaert artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A spring landscape with trees along a path
Leon Spilliaert
Oostende (België) 1881-1946 Brussel
1881-1946
A spring landscape with trees along a path
pencil, chalk, watercolour and gouache on paper 50.4 x 50.2 cm, signed l.l. and painted 1920
This work on paper was previously for sale.
After a short training at the Bruges Academy, the Belgian painter Leon Spilliaert developed an alienating and disturbing Symbolist style recalling the work of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944). His work bears an affinity to Expressionism and Surrealism as well. Spilliaert painted mainly landscapes with a particular interest for trees, but after 1909 drew much inspiration from everyday life, painting portraits, figures and still lifes. He was a master watercolourist, who with sober means was able to render the essence of his subject matter. Spilliaert lived for a long spell in Brussels and travelled to the Netherlands, France, England and Germany.