Leo Gestel
"L'Écuyère 1926"
LEO GESTEL
Woerden 1881-1941 Hilversum
L’ÉCUYÈRE
1926
Pastel on paper
48.5 x 63 cm.
Signed and dated: lower right "Leo Gestel 1926".
Provenance: long-term loan Museum Boijmans and Van Beuningen 1990-2006; Virginie Regnault; auct. Paul Brandt, "Collection P.A. Regnault ’Amsterdam, 1958, cat. no. 166 (ill) (Virginie Regnault has reasoned the painting); Collection, P.A. Regnault.
Exhibited: Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum) "Leo Gestel", 1946 .; Heerlen (Raadhuis Heerlen) "Modern masters from the collection of P.A. Regnault’s may-june 1951; Laren, (Singer Museum) "Leo Gestel", 1993; Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, Relationship and Individuality, 2002.
Literature: W. van der Pluijm, Leo Gestel, pl. 34; J. Slagter, Sint Lucas Series, pl. 17; M.E.Th. Estourgie-Beijer, Leo Gestel, painter and draftsman, Zwolle, 1993, p. 78, ill 77; M. Lambrechts, Relationship & Individuality: Belgian and Dutch art 1890-1945, Amsterdam 2002, p. 46, cat no. 46.