Wednesday 24 February 2016

Rodolphe Strebelle, Belgian modernist work

Rops, from Belgium, sells on 6 March 2016 a "signed Strebelle, 1914" Meditative Young Woman, a small (24 by 32) oil estimated at 140 to 200 Euro.

It is a work by Rodolphe Strebelle (1880-1959), father of the more famous sculptor Olivier Strebelle and two further artistic children.

It is a fairly avant-garde work for its time in Belgium, with elements of Fauvism and Luminism to it, and is comparable (though smaller and more sketchy) to a work from 1917 sold at Galerie Moderne in 2007 for 6,500 Euro. It should be worth a lot more than the estimate, closer to 1,000 Euro probably.

UPDATE: sold for 1,000 Euro, yay!

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