After the First World War, Constant Permeke settled in a desolate, somewhat destitute fisherman’s quarter in Ostend. Influenced by his wartime memories and these dismal surroundings, he produced his earliest expressionist works. In the years just after the war, his chief subjects were the harbour with its fishing boats, and the fishermen and their wives. This 1921 portrait of a fisherman sitting is one of a series of large-format figure studies in charcoal on paper, a genre in which Permeke was to continue working until the end of his life.
| Artist |
Constant Permeke
RKD
VIAF
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| Title | Fisherman, Fischer |
| Date | 1921 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right: Permeke 1921 |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | charcoal drawings AAT |
| Inventory number | 1950-R |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Galerie Georges Giroux Brussels 1950 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1950-R |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2159/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A235
sitting figure
Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 43C128 fisherman Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Expressionist (style)
AAT
Modernist AAT |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Tekeningen, pastels en aquarellen; Inventaris / Moniek Nagels. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1988 (p. 44) |
| Constant Permeke (tentoonstelling Brussel, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, 11.10.2012 - 20.01.2013) / Willy Van Den Bussche. - Brussel : Mercatorfonds, 2012 ; Brussel : BOZAR BOOKS, 2012 |
| Constant Permeke / Anneleen Cassiman, Jan Ceuleers, Inne Gheeraert. - Antwerpen : Hannibal Books, 2024 (p. 79) |
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