MARC. EEMANS
Belgian surrealist painter, poet and art critic
Belgian surrealist painter, poet and art critic
Marc. Eemans (Dendermonde 1907 - Brussels 1998)
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Call 02 539.23.09 or mail [email protected] for information.
1925
SURREALIST PERIOD
In 1925 Eemans is overwhelmed upon reading Breton's surrealist manifesto. He meets Irène Hamoir, who becomes his companion. In 1926 they both join the surrealist group "Société du Mystère" around René Magritte, with poet Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte, E.L.T. Mesens, Camille Goemans, Louis Scutenaire and André Souris.
In 1930 Irène Hamoir married poet Louis Scutenaire.
SURREALIST PERIOD
In 1925 Eemans is overwhelmed upon reading Breton's surrealist manifesto. He meets Irène Hamoir, who becomes his companion. In 1926 they both join the surrealist group "Société du Mystère" around René Magritte, with poet Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte, E.L.T. Mesens, Camille Goemans, Louis Scutenaire and André Souris.
In 1930 Irène Hamoir married poet Louis Scutenaire.
Marc. Eemans "Soccer match" 1927, Oil on canvas, 95 x 120 cm
Signed and dated below left.
Provenance : collection Victor Servranckx.
Available for sale
This painting was published in the magazine "Variétés" founded by Paul-Gustave Van Hecke and E.L.T. Mesens.
After painting this work Eemans discovered that flemish poet Paul Van Ostaijen (1896-1928) had written a "grotesque" poem entitled
"Real soccer match" in which the goalkeeper was beheaded when the ball hit him hard at close range...
Eemans wrote a letter to Van Ostaijen to inform him about this extraordinary coincidence, but the latter had just passed away...
Signed and dated below left.
Provenance : collection Victor Servranckx.
Available for sale
This painting was published in the magazine "Variétés" founded by Paul-Gustave Van Hecke and E.L.T. Mesens.
After painting this work Eemans discovered that flemish poet Paul Van Ostaijen (1896-1928) had written a "grotesque" poem entitled
"Real soccer match" in which the goalkeeper was beheaded when the ball hit him hard at close range...
Eemans wrote a letter to Van Ostaijen to inform him about this extraordinary coincidence, but the latter had just passed away...
René Magritte "The secret player" 1927, oil on canvas, 152 x 195 cm
Acquired by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels at Christie's New York in 1995
Stephanie D'Alessandro, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, commented this work as follows :
"I think that part of Magritte's project is to play with things that are commonplace, and in turning them on their head, bringing out the strangeness of looking at paint on canvas and expecting to see something real in it. His project is not to give us a narrative but instead to evoke a mood, to make us aware of those habits that we have every time we look at a picture. So it's frustrating, in a way, to look at the picture and look for meaning and walk away with a sense of foreboding perhaps, a sense of disquiet. And that's actually Magritte's meaning"
Acquired by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels at Christie's New York in 1995
Stephanie D'Alessandro, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, commented this work as follows :
"I think that part of Magritte's project is to play with things that are commonplace, and in turning them on their head, bringing out the strangeness of looking at paint on canvas and expecting to see something real in it. His project is not to give us a narrative but instead to evoke a mood, to make us aware of those habits that we have every time we look at a picture. So it's frustrating, in a way, to look at the picture and look for meaning and walk away with a sense of foreboding perhaps, a sense of disquiet. And that's actually Magritte's meaning"
1928
First solo exhibition at Gallery "L'époque" run by E.L.T. Mesens and financed by mecenas Paul-Gustave Van Hecke.
First solo exhibition at Gallery "L'époque" run by E.L.T. Mesens and financed by mecenas Paul-Gustave Van Hecke.
Marc. Eemans "L'appétit du silence" 1928, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Signed and dated upper left.
Provenance : collection Victor Servranckx.
Available for sale
Eemans painted a Sunset at sea with mountains at the bottom. On top a lighthouse appears upside down together with the same sea and mountains. The lady, most probably his companion Irène Hamoir, is seated in a floating armchair in this dreamlike scene.
Signed and dated upper left.
Provenance : collection Victor Servranckx.
Available for sale
Eemans painted a Sunset at sea with mountains at the bottom. On top a lighthouse appears upside down together with the same sea and mountains. The lady, most probably his companion Irène Hamoir, is seated in a floating armchair in this dreamlike scene.
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Irène Hamoir (1906 - 1994)
Belgian surrealist poet and writer. She became the companion of Marc Eemans in 1925,
but married poet Louis Scutenaire in 1930.
Among the important Scutenaire-Hamoir bequest to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels
there are a large number of paintings, gouaches and drawings by René Magritte and Marc. Eemans
Belgian surrealist poet and writer. She became the companion of Marc Eemans in 1925,
but married poet Louis Scutenaire in 1930.
Among the important Scutenaire-Hamoir bequest to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels
there are a large number of paintings, gouaches and drawings by René Magritte and Marc. Eemans
Marc. Eemans and René Magritte in 1929-30. Photo by surrealist poet Paul Nougé
1930
The City Museum of Amsterdam invites belgian surrealists Eemans, Magritte and Mambour to an exhibition about
"Dutch Independent Artists". The prices of Eemans' works in the catalogue are higher that those of his older colleagues.
Eemans leaves the "Société du Mystère" since his ideas about surrealism inspired by mysticism, esotericism and the occult, are not accepted by the other members of the group. Irène Hamoir marries surrealist poet Louis Scutenaire.
The City Museum of Amsterdam invites belgian surrealists Eemans, Magritte and Mambour to an exhibition about
"Dutch Independent Artists". The prices of Eemans' works in the catalogue are higher that those of his older colleagues.
Eemans leaves the "Société du Mystère" since his ideas about surrealism inspired by mysticism, esotericism and the occult, are not accepted by the other members of the group. Irène Hamoir marries surrealist poet Louis Scutenaire.
Marc. Eemans in 1991
I am more lyrical and elegiac, romantic by nature. Magritte is more prosaic, with his bowler hat and yapping dog.
I usually stay on the horizon, near Valhalla and Olympus, whereas Magritte remains on earth. His art is plebeian, mine aristocratic.
After all, I am a surrealist aesthete.
I am more lyrical and elegiac, romantic by nature. Magritte is more prosaic, with his bowler hat and yapping dog.
I usually stay on the horizon, near Valhalla and Olympus, whereas Magritte remains on earth. His art is plebeian, mine aristocratic.
After all, I am a surrealist aesthete.
"Intellectual biography of Marc. Eemans by Prof. Piet Tommissen, followed by a spiritual biography by Friedrich-Markus Huebner
and an afterword by artist Jean-Jacques Gailliard", Ed. Sodim Brussels, 1980.
and an afterword by artist Jean-Jacques Gailliard", Ed. Sodim Brussels, 1980.
