WYTSMAN, RODOLPHE1860 Termonde - 1927 Linkebeek


Title: "Der alte Kirschbaum".
Technique: Pastel chalk on Paper, laid down on canvas.
Measurement: 70,5 x 60cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: "R.Wytsman".
Frame: Framed.
Verso hardly legibly titled "Le vieux cerisier sustel?", faintly legibly signed and inscribed "Bruxelles".

Provenance:
Private ownership, Germany.

Rodolphe Wytsmann depicted the motif of blossoming cherry trees several times. Here, it is an old cherry tree in autumn that the Belgian Late Impressionist 'portrays'. As one of the founding members of the artists' group "Les Vingts", Rodolphe Wytsman, together with Theo van Rysselberghe, James Ensor and Ferdinand Khnopff, belonged to the "inner circle" of the Brussels avant-garde at the end of the 19th century.