VICTOR SERVRANCKX
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..
Servranckx was highly appreciated by many great contemporaries
Abstract Composition 1922, Gouache
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Cover of the famous Berlin magazine "Der Sturm" edited by Herwarth Walden, 1928
Opus 10 1928 "Clouded marble-marbled clouds" Oil on canvas
In 1928 Herwarth Walden exhibited Servranckx at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum Brussels in 1965
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In 1928 Herwarth Walden exhibited Servranckx at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum Brussels in 1965
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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
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, 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, 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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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 at the opening of the Servranckx exhibition at Group 2 Gallery
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
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
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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Opus 2 1933 "Portrait of Mrs Ch. B.", Oil on canvas
The cloudy background upper left is in perfect harmony with the ladies' coiffure
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The cloudy background upper left is in perfect harmony with the ladies' coiffure
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Opus 12 1941 "Voluptuous mating of 2 snails", Oil on canvas
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
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"The wheat - Le blé coupé" 1945, Oil on cardboard
Exhibited at Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, 1947
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Exhibited at Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, 1947
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"The Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau mountain range" (Interlaken, Switzerland) 1948
Oil on panel, 34 x 41 cm, available
Painted by the artist on his way to the Venice Biennial in 1948
Oil on panel, 34 x 41 cm, available
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 art dealer Léonce Rosenberg
Preface by the famous art dealer Léonce Rosenberg
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
Exhibited at Ixelles museum, 1965
Exhibited at Ixelles museum, 1965
Opus 20 "Purple oval" 1949 Oil on canvas
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum, 1965
Exhibited at Ixelles Museum, 1965
Opus 5 1952 "The magic of dawn and dusk" Oil on canvas, 146 x 92 cm
Exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels in 1989
Exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels in 1989
Opus 2 - 1963, Oil on canvas, 204 x 61 cm
One of the artist's last works, a synthesis of his long career
One of the artist's last works, a synthesis of his long career
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.