Collection Wolfers & Petrucci: Hidden Treasures
Catalogue of the selling exhibition in Galerie St-John, Ghent (Belgium), exhibition from the 23rd of November to the 24th of December. 100 sculptures and (art) objects by Philippe and Marcel Wolfers, silver by Wolfers Frères, etc.
Catalogue of the selling exhibition in Galerie St-John, Ghent (Belgium), exhibition from the 23rd of November to the 24th of December. 100 sculptures and (art) objects by Philippe and Marcel Wolfers, silver by Wolfers Frères, etc.
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Frans Van Holder (attributed)<br />
Portrait of Marcel <strong>Wolfers</strong>, study, ca. 1910–1914<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
Dimensions: 66 × 35 cm<br />
Provenance:<br />
Marcel <strong>Wolfers</strong> and Clairette <strong>Petrucci</strong> collection<br />
Franz Van Holder (1881–1919) was a close friend of the family. He painted a<br />
magnificent portrait of Philippe <strong>Wolfers</strong> in 1907, now in the Royal Museums<br />
of Fine Arts in Brussels (Inv. No. 7732). This study of son Marcel <strong>Wolfers</strong>, has<br />
according to family tradition been painted between 1910 and 1914. Although<br />
unfinished and therefore unsigned, it was always attributed to Franz Van Holder<br />
and took pride of place in the <strong>Wolfers</strong> household. Marcel is depicted as a young<br />
dandy, ready to go out riding. In the background to the left, one can discern a<br />
plaster head of a horse, standing on a sculptor’s pedestal. This could be the head<br />
of the “Possidere” sculpture by Marcel <strong>Wolfers</strong>, which was shown at the Venice<br />
Biennale of 1912.<br />
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