The nude very rarely appears in Jean Brusselmans’ work, and when it does, as in this monumental painting, he usually only considers it to be of secondary importance: the play of horizontal and vertical lines both dominates and forms a contrast to the solid body of Brusselmans’ wife in the centre. Through the attitude of the arm raised above the head and the downward falling movement of the sheet, the body describes a rectangle which contrasts palely with the flat background of brown and greyish blue. In 1938 Brusselmans painted this subject again but then in a slightly different form.
| Artist |
Jean Brusselmans
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| Title | Nude with White Sheet |
| Date | 1937 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom left: Jean Brusselmans. / 1937. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1941-A |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1941-A |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7899/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
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300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
22C4(WHITE)
colours, pigments, and paints: white
Iconclass
31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA25112 arm raised, with fingers spread out - AA - both arms or hands Iconclass 31B6213 looking sideways Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A2 interior of the house Iconclass 41A721 chairs (furniture forms) Iconclass 41A7212 armchair, seat Iconclass 41A7633 sheet Iconclass 41A773 container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase 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 (nr. 425) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 267 (ill. 187)) |
| Biënnale van de schilderkunst : het genot van het kijken (tentoonstelling Deurle, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens ; Machelen-Zulte, Roger Raveelmuseum, 29.06.2008 - 21.09.2008) / Janus Boudewijns, Piet Coessens, Joost Declercq. - Deurle (Sint-Martens-Latem) : Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, 2008 ; Machelen-aan-de-Leie : Roger Raveelmuseum, 2008 |
| 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. 86-87 (ill.)) |
| Jean Brusselmans (tentoonstelling Oostende, Kunstmuseum aan zee, 09.04.2011 - 04.09.2011) / Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Phillip Van den Bossche. - Oostende : Mu.ZEE, 2013 |
| Bazaar België : De 100 boeiendste Belgische kunstwerken volgens Claude Blondeel (tentoonstelling Brussel, CENTRALE for contemporary art, 19.06.2013 - 29.09.2013) / Claude Blondeel. - Gent : Borgerhoff & Lamberigts nv, 2013 |
| 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 |
| Jean Brusselmans (tentoonstelling Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 17.02.2018 - 10.06.2018) / Jan Dibbets, Rudi Fuchs, Hans Janssen. - Den Haag : Gemeentemuseum (Den Haag), 2018 ; Veurne : Hannibal, 2018 (p. 78-79) |
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