Bourgeois Interior
Georges Lemmen
1890–1891
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping and black Conté crayon, with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper, fixed
- Dimensions
- 47 × 59.3 cm (18 9/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- charcoal
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
prints and drawingpaperinteriorpaper (fiber product)charcoal
About
This important study for a lost painting of the same name made its debut at the annual exhibition of the Belgian avant-garde society Les XX (The Twenty) in 1891. Georges Seurat had shown A Sunday on La Grand Jatte (1884/86; in the Art Institute’s collection) there just four years before. The most ambitious of Lemmen’s first Neo-Impressionist works, the composition depicts his sister, mother, and grandmother.
