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Still life with Cineraria, 1922

  • gouache, paper
  • 765 x 555 mm
  • Inv. 2004-G

Public Domain

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During the 1920s, Gustave Van de Woestyne incorporated the influences of cubism and expressionism into a personal compromise. The artist's writing is defined by a distinct sense of synthesis in which forms are greatly simplified and deformation is not shunned. This makes his work from the postwar period akin to Neorealism. However, his work retains a meditative character, full of symbolism and wonder, and even betrays surrealist intentions around 1930. In the paintings shown here, van de Woestyne brought together elements of everyday bourgeois existence. As a technique, he uses gouache, which was particularly popular in 1920s modernism.

Artist

Gustave Van de WoestyneRKDVIAFWikidata
Ghent 1881 - Uccle 1947
draftsmen (artists)AAT

TitleStill life with Cineraria
Date 1922
Period20th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year bottom right: GVE VAN DE WOESTYNE / 1922
Collectionprint room
Object type gouache AAT
Inventory number2004-G
Acquisition credit purchase
van de Woestijne, Odile
Kessel-Lo
2004
Current whereaboutsWork currently not on display
Permalinkhttps://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2004-G
IIIF Manifesthttps://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/5511/manifest.json