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    Portrait of the Artist's Sister
    Georges Lemmen. Portrait of the Artist's Sister, 1891. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000635

    Portrait of the Artist's Sister

    by Georges Lemmen

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Allan Frumkin Gallery by 1961; sold to the Art Institute, 1961.

    Exhibition history

    The Hague, Kunstkring, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en tekeningen van eenigen uit de ‘XX’ en uit de ‘Assocation pour l’Art’, July 1892, cat. 16. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Neo-Impressionism, February-April 1968, cat. 126. New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Belgian Art 1880 - 1914, Apr. 23-June 29, 1980, p. 118, cat. 48. Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition, Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 1, 1985, cat. 47; traveled to Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986. Princeton, University Art Museum, Neo-Impressionist Portraiture, 1991; traveled to Brussels. Brussels, Musée d’Ixelles, Gorges Lemmen Retrospective, April 24 - July 13, 1997. Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Pointillismus, September 6-November 1997; Lausanne, Fondaton de l’Hermitage, January 23-May 1998 [Cologne Only]. Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Faces of Neo-Impressionism, June 13–September 7, 2014.

    Publications

    Jane Block, "A Study in Belgian Neo-Impressionist Portraiture," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 13, no. 1 (1981): 36 (ill.), 37. Richard Brettell, Post-Impressionists, Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1987), p. 47, 49 (ill). Roger Cardon, Georges Lemmen (1865–1916) (Antwerp: Pandora, 1990), 108 (ill.). 111–12. E. Mendgen, et. al. In Perfect Harmony: Picture and Frame, 1850-1920 exh. cat. (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 1995), fig. 173c.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Georges Lemmen (Belgian, 1865–1916)
    Date
    1891
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    62 × 51 cm (24 7/16 × 20 1/16 in.); Framed: 75.6 × 64.2 × 7 cm (29 3/4 × 25 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    Belgium
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    A. A. McKay Fund
    Accession no.
    1961.42

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