Fernand Khnopff
"Tête de femme"
FERNAND KHNOPFF
Grembergen 1858-1921 Brussels
TÊTE DE FEMME
Belgium Ca. 1918
Pencil and color pencil on paper
27 x 21 cm.
Signed: lower middle ‘Fernand Khnopff’
Artist labels and exhibition labels on the reverse
Provenance: Private collection, Belgium; Triton Foundation, 2001.
Exhibited: Tokyo, Musee des Beaux-Arts du Bunkamura, June 8 – July 8 1990; Himeji, Musee d’Art Municipal d’ Himeij, July 14 – August 12 1990; Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museu, August 18 – September 30 1990; Yamanashi, Musée départemental d’Art, October 7 –November 11 1990; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen; Dr. Elie van Rijckevorsel Prentenkabinet, January 18 – February 2 2003 ‘Van Monet tot Picasso, Meesterwerken op papier 1860-1960’; Brussels, Royal Museum of fine Arts of Belgium, ‘Fernand Khnopff’, January 16 – May 9 2004.
Literature: Japan, Fernand Khnopff, cat. no. 113, p. 185; Fernand Khnopff. Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussel. Published on the occasion of the retrospective ‘Fernand Khnopff, 1858-1921’, p.141, no. 69. Included in the archives by Mrs. Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque under n° 606 bis (the work was discovered only after the second edition of the Catalogue Raisonné in 1987).