Theo van Rysselberghe [The Promenade] 1901

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◧ Artist: Theo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)                
◧ Country: Belgium                                      
◧ Title: [The Promenade]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas  
◧ Painting Size: 97 x 130 cm

◧ Museum:  Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

◧ Country of Stamp Issue: Belgium
◧ Date of Issue: April 15, 2013
◧ Face Value: 1 Inland Rate - No Face Value


Belgian artist Theophile van Rysselberghe was the founding member of the Belgian avantgarde art group ‘Les XX’ (The Twenty’) in the 19th century. 


He discovered the Pointillist technique when he saw Georges Seurat's [A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte] at the eighth impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886.  Rysselberghe adopted the Pointillist style right after, but he eventually turned away from Pointillism after 1903. 

[A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte] Art Institute of Chicago

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