Anne-Pierre DE KAT (Delft 1881 - La-Frette-sur

Anne-Pierre DE KAT (Delft 1881 - La-Frette-sur-Seine 1968)
"Rue Monsieur-Le-Prince in Paris"
Dutch School
Signed on the lower right
Oil on canvas
38 x 46 cm / 15 x 18.1 in
CASO, P., "Anne-Pierre DE KAT", Les Editeurs d'Art Associés, Brussels, 1983, p.120
Provenance:
Private Collection, Belgium
Exhibitions :
Antwerp
Brussels
Charleroi
Ghent
Ixelles
Tournai
Literature:
BÉNÉZIT, E., "Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les
temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers", Librairie Gründ, Paris,
1999.
CASO, P., "Anne-Pierre DE KAT", Les Editeurs d'Art Associés, Brussels, 1983.
DE SEYN, Eugène, "Dictionnaire biographique des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts en Belgique", Brussels,
1935.
PAS, Wim & Greet, "ARTO: Biografische Lexicon Plastische Kunst in België", De Gulden Roos, Antwerp, 2000.
PIRON, Paul, "Dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens de Belgique des XIXe et XXe siècles", Éditions Art in Belgium,
Brussels, 2003.
Artist Biography :
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Anne-Pierre De Kat was a Dutch painter of landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes, figures and portraits. He belonged to
the artistic group "Brabant Fauvists". He started his artistic studies at the Academies of Delft and The Hague.
When he was 19 years old, he left his family and country. He received his artistic training at the Academy of Ghent
under the tutorship of Louis-Pierre Van Biesbroeck, afterwards he completed his studies at the Academy of
Brussels where he became friends with the renowned Fauvist painter Rik Wouters. After some travels to Holland
and Paris, he installed himself in Watermael-Boîtsfort, near Brussels. De Kat exhibited his work for the first time at
the "Salon des Indépendants" and also participated at the "Salon des Bleus" at Galerie Georges Giroux in Brussels
in 1906. He participated at the last exhibition of "La Libre Esthétique" in 1914. During the First World War he
became a member of the "Section Artistique" on the battlefield. De Kat naturalised to Belgian citizenship in 1919.
In the same year he participated with his oeuvre at the exhibition of "Le Cercle Artistique et Littéraire de Bruxelles"
and also at the opening exhibition of the "Cercle des XV". He obtained international recognition and participated at
numerous exhibitions in Barcelona, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Venice. De Kat exhibited his works at the renowned
gallery "Le Centaure" in 1921. He traveled with his friend Edgar Tytgat to Austria in 1923, where they both
discovered Breughel and Cranach. His oeuvre evolved eventually, under the influence of these Flemish Primitives,
towards a larger Classicism. He obtained the "Prix National des Beaux-Arts" in 1938, the "Prix Auguste Oleffe" in
1946, and also the "Prix de Portrait" in 1947.
BOON GALLERY
KUSTLAAN 197, B-8300 KNOKKE, BELGIUM
TEL: +32 (0)475 45 49 63 / TEL: +32 (0)476 31 53 76
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Member of the Belgian Chamber of Art Experts
Member of the Royal Belgian Chamber of Art & Antique Dealers