Victor Servranckx 1897-1965
Opus 20, (Calm Blocks Fallen from an Obscure Disaster), 1927
Oil on canvas
146 × 81 cm
Copyright The Artist
Thanks to a photograph showing the artist during his solo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels) in January 1929, we know that the painting was exhibited there. Félix Carlier...
Thanks to a photograph showing the artist during his solo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels) in January 1929, we know that the painting was exhibited there. Félix Carlier acquired the work at the group exhibition (featuring works by De Boeck, Flouquet, Gailliard, and Servranckx) at Galerie Le Centaure in Brussels in 1929.
Provenance
Félix Carlier, Waermael-Boisfort (purchased from Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, 1929)Galerie J.-P. Alaerts, Brussels
London, Christie’s, 16 October 1990, lot no. 61 (illus.)
Lokeren, De Vuyst, 6 October 2001, lot no. 489
Private collection, Brussels
Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp
Exhibitions
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1929 (no catalogue)Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Exhibition De Boeck, Flouquet, Gailliard, Servranckx, 1929, no. 33
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1947, no. 45 “146 × 92 cm”
Brussels, Musée d’Ixelles/Museum van Elsene, Retrospective Le Centaure. Homage to Walter Schwarzenberg, 1963, no. 117
Brussels, Musée d’Ixelles/Museum van Elsene, 1965, no. 107
Hasselt, Provinciaal Begijnhof, 1970, no. 57 (illus.)
Literature
La Nation belge (Brussels), 12th year, no. 48, 17 February 1929, p. 3 (illus.)Le Peuple (Brussels), 5th year, no. 48, 17 February 1929, p. 1 (illus.)