# Georges Lemmen artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1865-11-26
- Death date: 1916-07-05
- Nationality: Belgian
- Movements: Neo-Impressionism, Les XX (Les Vingt)
- Common media: oil painting, pastel, watercolor, drawing, printmaking and graphic design

## About Georges Lemmen

Georges Lemmen (1865–1916) was a Belgian painter, pastelist, and graphic designer recognized as a leading figure of Neo-Impressionism in Belgium. Born in Schaarbeek, Brussels, he joined the progressive artist society Les XX (Les Vingt) in 1888, exhibiting alongside James Ensor, Fernand Khnopff, and other avant-garde Belgian artists. Influenced by Georges Seurat's divisionist technique, Lemmen adopted the pointillist brushwork that characterizes much of his mature work, applying it to coastal scenes, domestic interiors, portraits, and still lifes. Beyond painting, he produced accomplished pastels, watercolors, and graphic designs that helped define Belgian Art Nouveau visual culture. His work is held in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lemmen died in Ukkel (Uccle) in 1916 at the age of fifty.

## Common works and media

Lemmen worked across oil on canvas, pastel on paper, watercolor, and various printmaking techniques. Known subjects include coastal views such as The Beach at Heist, portraits including Aline Marechal, floral still lifes such as Vase of Flowers, domestic interiors, and figurative scenes. He also produced book illustrations, posters, and decorative graphic designs associated with the Belgian Art Nouveau movement. His intertwined G-L monogram appears on many works, though not universally.

## Market and appraisal context

Georges Lemmen's works appear regularly at auction, with over four hundred recorded lots spanning oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, prints, and drawings. Oil paintings from his Neo-Impressionist period—particularly beach scenes and interiors—tend to attract the strongest market interest. Smaller works on paper, prints, and later decorative pieces are more widely available. Valuation depends heavily on medium, dimensions, date, provenance, condition, and whether the work can be firmly attributed to his recognized Neo-Impressionist phase. Collectors should note that pastels and watercolors require careful condition assessment due to inherent light sensitivity.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from museum records, library authority files, and scholarly sources with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This page draws on sources including the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, VIAF, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/49280
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1963612
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemmen
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/29583994/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86138003
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3476
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500025073