When Jean Brusselmans began painting it was in the style of the Fauves, using vivid colours and loose brushstrokes. After WWI he started using more compact, simpler forms. Leaning Woman is an early example of this development. By composing the painting in large areas of colour, Brusselmans reduces the subject to clear basic shapes. A striking feature is his sketchy technique and the way he applies his paint in transparent layers. The warm colours create unity between the light, the space and the figure, thereby giving the work an intimate atmosphere and a poetic nature. His wife Marie Frisch probably posed for the painting.
| Artist |
Jean Brusselmans
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| Title | Leaning Woman |
| Date | 1920 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom left: Jean Brusselmans. 1920. |
| signature and year left above the book and next to right arm of the woman: Jean / Brusselmans / 11920 (?) | |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1937-AE |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1937-AE |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/1412/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
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300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A25312
head held in the hand(s), with elbows leaning on an elevation or on the knees
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31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A711 table Iconclass 49M32 book Iconclass 61BB2 historical persons - BB - woman Iconclass 61BB2(MARIE-LÉONIE BRUSSELMANS-FRISCH) historical person (MARIE-LÉONIE BRUSSELMANS-FRISCH) - BB - woman Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Expressionist (style)
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Modernist AAT |
| Jean Brusselmans : Beschrijvende catalogus / Gita Brys-Schatan, Robert L. Delevoy. - Brussel : Laconti, 1972 (cat. 114) |
| La Peinture en Belgique sous le règne du Roi Albert (exposition Namur, Maison de la Culture, 8.6 - 19.8.1984) / Philippe Roberts-Jones. - Namur : Maison de la Culture, 1984 |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. (ill. 183), 267) |
| Het oorkussen van de melancholie (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 20.12.2000 - 25.02.2001) / Joannes Késenne. - Brussel : Sabam, 2000 |
| Herinneringen : veertig Vlamingen en hun geliefkoosd kunstwerk ; met foto's van Elisabeth Broekaert, Michiel Hendrickx, Jacques Sonck, Maarten Vanden Abeele. - Antwerpen : Openbaar kunstbezit in Vlaanderen, 2003 |
| 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. 164-166, cat. 43) |
| 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 (p. 171, cat. 49 (ill.)) |
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