VICTOR SERVRANCKX
Major avant-garde & surrealist artist
VICTOR SERVRANCKX 1897 - 1965
Belgian avant-garde artist, colleague and friend of René Magritte, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Filippo Marinetti, Van Doesburg, Moholy-Nagy etc.. undoubtedly one of the major Belgian artists of the XXth century whose works feature in the permanent collections of MOMA New York, Yale University, Centre Pompidou Paris, Grenoble, Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid, Lisbon, Ludwig museum Vienna, Lehmbruck museum Duisburg, Mönchengladbach, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, Antwerp etc..
Belgian avant-garde artist, colleague and friend of René Magritte, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Filippo Marinetti, Van Doesburg, Moholy-Nagy etc.. undoubtedly one of the major Belgian artists of the XXth century whose works feature in the permanent collections of MOMA New York, Yale University, Centre Pompidou Paris, Grenoble, Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid, Lisbon, Ludwig museum Vienna, Lehmbruck museum Duisburg, Mönchengladbach, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, Antwerp etc..
June 1922 : René Magritte, E.L.T. Mesens, Servranckx, Pierre-Louis Flouquet, Pierre Bourgeois
Georgette Berger-Magritte, Pierre Broodcoorens, Henriette Flouquet
Georgette Berger-Magritte, Pierre Broodcoorens, Henriette Flouquet
Servranckx was highly appreciated by many great contemporaries
Abstract Composition 1922, Gouache (Sold)
"Le premier qui pratiqua l'art abstrait en Belgique fut Servranckx" Michel Seuphor
"Le premier qui pratiqua l'art abstrait en Belgique fut Servranckx" Michel Seuphor
Invited by Marcel Duchamp, Servranckx participated in the "International Exhibition of Modern Art", organized in 1926 by "Société Anonyme" at the Brooklyn museum in New York. "Société Anonyme" had been created by american artist & mecenas Katherine Dreier and by Marcel Duchamp. Later Miss Dreier bequeathed her collection of modern art to the Yale University Art Gallery.
Cover of the famous Berlin magazine "Der Sturm" edited by Herwarth Walden, 1928
The painting on the cover belongs to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris
The painting on the cover belongs to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris
Opus 10 1928 "Clouded marble-marbled clouds" Oil on canvas, 46 x 37 cm
In 1928 Herwarth Walden exhibited Servranckx at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum Brussels in 1965
Private collection
In 1928 Herwarth Walden exhibited Servranckx at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum Brussels in 1965
Private collection
Opus 2 1927, the water realm, oil on panel
Collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
Collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
Solo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, 1929
Opus 20 1931 "Life starts mysteriously" Oil on canvas 70 x 58 cm
The artist's thumbprints appear in the circle at the upper right
Servranckx, who was fascinated by scientific discoveries, makes us look at the origins of life through a microscope.
Exhibitions : Budapest, Prague, Den Haag 1936 (Les artistes musicalistes), the Corcoran Gallery of Art Museum, Washington D.C., 1963
Ixelles Museum 1965, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1989, full page illustration in the catalogue.
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The artist's thumbprints appear in the circle at the upper right
Servranckx, who was fascinated by scientific discoveries, makes us look at the origins of life through a microscope.
Exhibitions : Budapest, Prague, Den Haag 1936 (Les artistes musicalistes), the Corcoran Gallery of Art Museum, Washington D.C., 1963
Ixelles Museum 1965, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1989, full page illustration in the catalogue.
Available, call 02 539.23.09 or mail group2gallerybrussels@gmail.com
Exhibition in Budapest 1936
"Life starts mysteriously" is below right
"Life starts mysteriously" is below right
In 2019 Group 2 Gallery organized a one-man show of the artist under the patronage of Mrs Anne Adriaens-Pannier,
Honorary curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium
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Mrs Anne Adriaens-Pannier opening the Servranckx exhibition at Group 2 Gallery in 2019.
Opus 9 1927 Oil on canvas 130 x 205 cm
With reference to Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, this major work could be called "1927 a Space Odyssey"
Private collection
With reference to Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, this major work could be called "1927 a Space Odyssey"
Private collection
Opus 7 1930 Oil and wood on panel (rare mixed media - collage) 70 x 90 cm
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum, 1965, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1989, illustration in the catalogue.
Michel Seuphor wrote that Servranckx was a visionary artist and cosmic poet painting his metaphysical obsessions.
The experienced viewer will discover affinities with the work of Max Ernst
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Exhibited at Ixelles Museum, 1965, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1989, illustration in the catalogue.
Michel Seuphor wrote that Servranckx was a visionary artist and cosmic poet painting his metaphysical obsessions.
The experienced viewer will discover affinities with the work of Max Ernst
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Cosmic vision Drawing 1927
Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Opus 2 1933 "Portrait of Mrs Ch. B.", Oil on canvas, 58 x 45 cm
The cloudy background upper left is in perfect harmony with the ladies' haircut
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The cloudy background upper left is in perfect harmony with the ladies' haircut
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Opus 12 1941 "Voluptuous mating of 2 snails - Accouplement vcluptueux de 2 escargots", Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum in 1965
Servranckx had a good sense of humour
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Exhibited at Ixelles Museum in 1965
Servranckx had a good sense of humour
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Opus 14 1941 "wheat threshing machine" Oil on panel
SOLD
SOLD
"The wheat - Le blé coupé" 1945, Oil on cardboard
Exhibited at Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, 1947
Private collection
"The Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau mountain range" (Interlaken, Switzerland) 1948
Oil on panel, 34 x 41 cm
Painted by the artist on his way to the Venice Biennial in 1948
Oil on panel, 34 x 41 cm
Painted by the artist on his way to the Venice Biennial in 1948
Catalogue of Servranckx exhibition at Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, 1947.
Preface by the famous parisian art dealer Léonce Rosenberg :
"Nous avons été heureux de retrouver chez Servranckx les qualités que nous avons toujours constatées dans son art et qui peuvent se formuler ainsi : originalité, noblesse, style et conscience"
Preface by the famous parisian art dealer Léonce Rosenberg :
"Nous avons été heureux de retrouver chez Servranckx les qualités que nous avons toujours constatées dans son art et qui peuvent se formuler ainsi : originalité, noblesse, style et conscience"
Léonce Rosenberg admiring "Opus 23 1923" at Galerie Apollo in 1946.
Collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.
Collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.
The Pelican, 1947, a rare Pastel on fabric, 43 x 31 cm
Exhibited at Ixelles museum, 1965
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Exhibited at Ixelles museum, 1965
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Opus 20 "Purple oval" 1949 Oil on canvas, 41 x 33 cm
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum, 1965
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Exhibited at Ixelles Museum, 1965
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Opus 5 1952 "The magic of dawn and dusk - Magie d'aube et de crépuscule" Oil on canvas, 146 x 92 cm
Exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels in 1989
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Exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels in 1989
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Opus 2 - 1963, Oil on canvas, 204 x 61 cm
One of the artist's last works, a synthesis of his long career
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One of the artist's last works, a synthesis of his long career
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The artist and art critic Maurits Bilcke at the opening of his last solo exhibition, Ixelles museum, 1965.
"The water realm" 1927, collection Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
"The water realm" 1927, collection Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
View of the Servranckx exhibition at Group 2 Gallery in 2019
Drawings at the Servranckx exhibition at Group 2 Gallery in 2019. Contact us for pictures and prices.