
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000635Portrait of the Artist's Sister
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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