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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York, organized in collaboration with Agnews, Brussels, and curated by its director, Dr. Noémie Goldman. A specialist in nineteenth-century Belgian art, Goldman has contributed to many publications and exhibitions focused on the artist. This presentation will be a rare opportunity to view a significant number of the artist’s works and marks the first dedicated Spilliaert show in New York in nearly five decades.
On view will be a representative selection of works on paper that date primarily to the 1900s and 1910s—a creative and highly productive period in Spilliaert’s early career—and epitomize his singular style. These works, many of which are among the largest and most iconic in Spilliaert’s oeuvre, demonstrate the artist’s development of his distinctive expressionist language and illustrate the range of his practice...More
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York, organized in collaboration with Agnews, Brussels, and curated by its director, Dr. Noémie Goldman. A specialist in nineteenth-century Belgian art, Goldman has contributed to many publications and exhibitions focused on the artist. This presentation will be a rare opportunity to view a significant number of the artist’s works and marks the first dedicated Spilliaert show in New York in nearly five decades.
On view will be a representative selection of works on paper that date primarily to the 1900s and 1910s—a creative and highly productive period in Spilliaert’s early career—and epitomize his singular style. These works, many of which are among the largest and most iconic in Spilliaert’s oeuvre, demonstrate the artist’s development of his distinctive expressionist language and illustrate the range of his practice...More
