SOLD
Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower left
Dated: 1902
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 11.00" x 18.00" (27.9cm x 45.7cm)
Framed Size: 16.00" x 23.00" (40.6cm x 58.4cm)
Provenance:
Private US collection
Sotheby's New York 23rd May 1997 Lot 309 - Sold $9,200.00
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£28,000.00
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Appareilleurs
by Maximilien Luce
1955
Oil on original canvas
£16,500.00
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Salon des arts menagers – 1955
by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1932
Oil on board
£6,500.00
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Evening in Paris
by Louis Hayet
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,550.00
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Pierrot aux bonnet noir
by Armand Francois Henrion
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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Le Café de la Place Blanche
by Elie Anatole Pavil
1903
Oil on board laid on canvas
£28,000.00
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Le Manege
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
c. 1930
Oil on board
£4,950.00
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Nu dans les nuages
by Albert BraÏtou-Sala
c. 1975
Oil on canvas
£8,950.00
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Jeune bretonne dans l’atelier Dyf – Arzon
by Marcel Dyf
Henry de Groux was the son of Charles de Groux. He studied with Portaels at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He was a member of the group Flight ( L'Essor) in 1886, and Les XX in 1887, from which he was excluded in 1890 due to his injurious attitude towards Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. He was friends with Degouve de Nuncques. In Paris in 1892 he linked up with Verlaine, Hérédia, Pierre Louÿs and Léon Bloy, with whom he broke suddenly. He spent the rest of his life in Provence. There he executed two large compositions for the stairs of the Opéra of Marseilles.
His canvases show a great conceptual power. He was inspired by World War I, creating Realist compositions that nevertheless approach allegory. He was involved in the Symbolist literary movement. He was often inspired by the literary themes in the cycles of Dante's Divine Comedy and Wagner's Tetrology. He also treated social themes, notably in 1893 with Great Upheaval. He became involved in the conflicts of the Third Republic, painting a Mocking of Zola during the Dreyfus Affair. He illustrated The Secret Book ( Le Livre Secret) by Joséphin Péladan, and Three Tales ( Trois Contes) by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. As a sculptor, he sought to exalt Baudelaire, Balzac, Wagner, and Tolstoy, whom he represented as a colossal figure. He painted Potato Harvest, Pilgrim of St Columba and Archers of Lachelen.
He began exhibiting his work in 1886. He drew acclaim for his Mocking of Christ in 1892 in Paris, presented to the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. The Salon refused the work, despite it having been defended by Puvis de Chavannes. In 1911 De Groux exhibited at the Salon d'Automne to great effect. At this point, he was so absorbed in his work that some listings indicated him as being 'deceased'.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Avignon (Palais du Roure): Mocking of Christ (1892)