Frits van den Berghe
"Returning ships on the Zuiderzee"
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FRITS VAN DEN BERGHE
Gent 1883-1939
RETURNING SHIPS ON THE ZUIDERZEE
Blaricum, 1919
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm.
Signed: lower left ‘Berghe’
Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands; Emmanuel-Robert De Vos, Amsterdam; Yolande Van den Berghe, Brussels; Campo Antwerp, April 1971, 452, ill.; Sotheby’s London, Oct. 25 1989, 63, ill.; Christie’s London, Oct. 16 1990, 34, ill; Tzwern-Aisinber Fine Arts, Brussels; Sotheby’s Amsterdam, May 31 1995, 362, ill.
Exhibited: Gent 1990, 80, ill.; Sint-Martens-Latem 1998, z.n.
Literature: A. Venema, De ballingen: Frits Van den Berghe, Gustave De Smet en Rik Wouters in Nederland 1914-1921, Baarn 1979, p. 125, ill.; P. Boyens, Sint-Martens-Latem: kunstenaarsdorp in Vlaanderen, Tielt [etc.] 1992, fig. 142, p. 417; S. van Bellingen in: Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, Gent 1998, p. 24; P. Boyens, P. Derom en G. Marquenie, Frits Van den Berghe 1883-1939, Gent [etc.] 1999, p. 377, ill.
Influenced by his Dutch colleagues, Van den Berghe made a series of land- and townscapes in which he transformed the modern styles into a personal imagery.