Georges lemmen biography
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Georges Lemmen was a Belgian Impressionist & Modern painter who was born in 1865. Their work is currently being shown at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. Numerous key galleries and museums such as ARTER have featured Georges Lemmen's work in the past.Georges Lemmen's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 17 USD to 315,504 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 315,504 USD for La modiste, sold at Christie's London in 2004. In the past 12 months, their paintings have averaged 13,452 USD, while his prints & graphic art have sold for an average of 2,427 USD.Georges Lemmen has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, The Providence Journal and The Wall Street Journal. The most recent article is Little Gems for $50,000 and Under written for Christie's Daily in October 2023. The artist died in 1916.
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Georges Lemmen Biography | Oil Paintings
Georges Lemmen liked drawing at a young age, and being the son of an architect, his father encouraged him with his drawings and art and enrolled him in the local art school, but Lemmen became bored with the teaching methods and dropped out of school.
In the early 1880s, he was influenced bygd Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, but the pointillist style of Georges Seurat had the most influence on him, Georges Lemmen started painting in a pointillist style. In 1885 at the age of twenty, he showed his work at a few different galleries in Brussels and in Ghent. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris and in 1888 Lemmen joined the avant-garde art group Les XX (The 20).
In 1890-1893, beneath the influence of Théo van Rysselberghe, he moved towards Post-Impressionism and painted numerous landscapes and portraits using the technique. But, after 1895, four years after the passing of Seurat, Lemmen aband
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G. (GEORGE) LEMMEN
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G. (GEORGE) LEMMEN
1865 Schaarbeek (Belgium) - 1916 Ukkel (Belgium)
George Lemmen lived and worked his whole life in Brussels. After the Academy of St Joost-ten-Node, he joined the innovative artist group Les XX. He was a thriving force behind pointillism and brought the work of Seurat and Signac to the attention of the general public. He was friends with Theo van Rysselberghe and Jan Toorop. Over time, his work became more intimate and nuanced. In addition to his painting, Lemmen engaged in typography and illustrations for various books and in the magazine L'Art Moderne, as well as various printing techniques. In 1894 he joined La Libre Esthetique the successor to Les XX and more focused on arts and crafts and Art Nouveau. At both of these groups, George Lemmen exhibited. At the turn of the century, however, he returned to painting with an intimate style in alignment with the Nabis Group to which Eduard Vuillard also belonged. Throug