LÉON SPILLIAERT | Le Masque fatigué

Paul Haesaerts, Brussels (acquired by 1965)
M. & Mme Lucien Soenen-Van der Jeught, Brussels (acquired from the above)
M. Roland Soenen, Brussels (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Antwerp, Guillaume Campo, Rétrospective Léon Spilliaert, 1965, no. 77 

Anne Adriaens-Pannier, Spilliaert, Le Regard de l’âme, Ghent, 2006, illustrated p. 398

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and attached to the mount with tape along all four edges. There are artist's pinholes at the upper right, upper centre and lower left corner. There is an area of minor staining to the sheet toward the centre of the right edge. This work is in overall very good condition.
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The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Madame Anne Adriaens-Pannier.