Rik Wouters was trained as a sculptor and a self-taught painter. His great example was the French painter Paul Cézanne. Wouters painted in bright, often sunny colours using a technique that is reminiscent of watercolour. He applied the paint in very thin layers, leaving bits of the canvas unpainted, and this gave the painting a special light effect. His favourite model was his wife Nel. After the fall of Antwerp at the start of WWI, Wouters was interned in the Netherlands as a soldier. He became incurably ill in 1915 and was allowed to go free. He went to live in Amsterdam together with his wife. While there he painted Seated Woman at the Window. The dark colours and serene atmosphere are typical of Wouters’ later work.
| Artist |
Rik Wouters
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VIAF
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| Title | Seated Woman at the Window or Portrait of Nel Deurinckx, the Artist’s Wife |
| Date | ca. 1915 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Amsterdam TGN |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1934-U |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Galerie Vooruit Ghent 1934 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1934-U |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/1367/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015637
portraits
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300124520 interior views AAT 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
22C5
reflection (light in general)
Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A2 interior of the house Iconclass 41A33 window Iconclass 41A335 window-seat Iconclass 41A421 curtains Iconclass 41A6711 flowers in a vase Iconclass 41A721 chairs (furniture forms) Iconclass 41A731 case furniture Iconclass 61BB2 historical persons - BB - woman Iconclass 61BB2(NEL WOUTERS-DUERINCKX) historical person (NEL WOUTERS-DUERINCKX) - BB - woman Iconclass 61D(NETHERLANDS) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (NETHERLANDS) Iconclass 61E(AMSTERDAM) names of cities and villages (AMSTERDAM) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Fauve
AAT
Brabant fauvism |
| Rik Wouters : Les Peintures = De Schilderijen ; Catalogue raisonné / Olivier Bertrand. - Antwerpen : N.V. Petraco, 1995 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1995 (p. 249, nr. 212 (ill.)) |
| Rik Wouters : Ontwikkeling en betekenis van het picturale oeuvre (1882-1916) / Stefaan Hautekeete. - Antwerpen : Petraco - Pandora, 1997 (p. 249) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 274 (ill. 160)) |
| D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 161-163, cat. 42) |
| 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. 30 (ill.), 369 (ill.)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (P. 111) |
| Rik Wouters : Développement et portée de son oeuvre peint (1882-1916) / Stefaan Hautekeete. - Anvers : Petraco - Pandora, 1997 |
| Belgische schone : Ensor tot Magritte ; Hoogtepunten uit de verzameling van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Laren, Singer Laren, 16.06 - 30.08.2015) / Johan De Smet, Jan Rudolph De Lorm. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2015 ; Laren : Singer Laren, 2015 ; Heule : Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2015 (cat. 48 (ill. p. 70)) |
| Rik Wouters & Nederland (tentoonstelling Amersfoort, Museum Flehite, 08.10.2016 - 08.01.2017) / Maarten Jager, Gerard Raven. - Zwolle : Waanders Uitgevers, 2016 ; Amersfoort : Museum Flehite, 2016 (p. 103 (ill.)) |
| Rik Wouters : retrospectieve (tentoonstelling Brussel, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten van België, 10.03 - 02.07.2017) / Frederik Leen, Stefaan Hautekeete, Francisca Vandepitte, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Herwig Todts. - Parijs : Somogy éditions d'art, 2017 ; Brussel : Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België (Brussel), 2017 (p. 125) |
| Rik Wouters : rétrospective (exposition Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 10.03 - 02.07.2017) / Frederik Leen, Stefaan Hautekeete, Francisca Vandepitte, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Herwig Todts. - Paris : Somogy éditions d'art, 2017 ; Bruxelles : Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 2017 (p. 125) |
| Rik Wouters in Amsterdam / Jan Frederik Heijbroek. - Amsterdam : De Buitenkant, 2018 (p. 73) |
| Het Kunstuur (tentoonstelling Mechelen, Heilige Geestkapel & Heilige Geesthuis, 13.02 - 30.09.2021) / Frank Van Laecke, Dirk Van Vaerenbergh, Hans Bourlon, Joost Bourlon, Wouter Verhulst. - Mechelen : Degroof-Petercam, 2021 (p. 51) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
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