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Farmhouse, ca. 1928

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 65.4 x 75.2 cm
  • Inv. 1928-AZ

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From the middle of the 1920s, Constant Permeke gradually abandoned the angular style that characterised his work of the early postwar years. In his numerous landscapes and seascapes especially, his style was direct and occasionally informal, as in The Farm. The paint is applied thickly, in coarse, wide brushstrokes. Permeke often limits himself to just a few colours. Here he uses mainly green and dark brown tones with an occasional white accent. The rural scene is dominated by the trees in the foreground which give the work a monumental character despite its small format.

Artist

Constant Permeke RKD VIAF Wikidata
Antwerp 1886 - Ostend 1952
painters (artists)AAT

Title Farmhouse
Date ca. 1928
Period 20th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: Permeke
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1928-AZ
Acquisition credit purchase
Galerie Le Centaure
Brussels
1928
Current whereabouts Work on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1928-AZ
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8482/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015636 landscapes AAT
Keywords Iconclass 25G11 groups of trees Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass
41A16 rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage Iconclass
41A17 farm (building) Iconclass
46A14 farmers Iconclass
46A222 rural life Iconclass
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 117)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 261)
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