Bourgeois Interior
Georges Lemmen
1890/91
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.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229007
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.