From the middle of the 1920s, Constant Permeke gradually abandoned the angular style that characterised his work of the early postwar years. In his numerous landscapes and seascapes especially, his style was direct and occasionally informal, as in The Farm. The paint is applied thickly, in coarse, wide brushstrokes. Permeke often limits himself to just a few colours. Here he uses mainly green and dark brown tones with an occasional white accent. The rural scene is dominated by the trees in the foreground which give the work a monumental character despite its small format.
| Artist |
Constant Permeke
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| Title | Farmhouse |
| Date | ca. 1928 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: Permeke |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1928-AZ |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Galerie Le Centaure Brussels 1928 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1928-AZ |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8482/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G11
groups of trees
Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass 41A16 rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage Iconclass 41A17 farm (building) Iconclass 46A14 farmers Iconclass 46A222 rural life Iconclass |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 117) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 261) |
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