Live Auction 3004Impressionist and Modern Art
Edgard Tytgat (1879-1957)
Lot 16

Edgard Tytgat (1879-1957)

Une page dramatique

Closed5 June 2012

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EUR 37,000

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Edgard Tytgat (1879-1957)
Une page dramatique
signed and dated 'Edgard Tytgat/1928' (lower right) and inscribed 'La derniere toilette de Marie Stuart' (lower centre); and signed and dated again, inscribed with title and numbered 'no. 220/F50' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
89 x 116 cm.
Painted in 1928.

Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, 1932.
Jean van Parys, Brussels.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1964.

Specialist note

Tytgat's style can be described as a simplification of reality with an intended naivety. He derived his inspiration mainly from daily life and incorporated these experiences in his own dream world. For the present lot Tytgat was inspired by the story of Marie Stuart (1542-1587). We see her just before she makes her last toilette, as the inscription on the paintings indicates. Tytgat's work always has a certain poetic and playful character, soft irony, youthful courage and underlying eroticism which is also visible in the present lot.