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Léon Spilliaert David Zwirner 5 March–12 April 2025 New York: 20th Street
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York, organized in collaboration with Agnews, Brussels, and curated by its director, Dr. Noémie Goldman. A specialist in nineteenth-century Belgian art, Goldman has contributed to many publications and exhibitions focused on the artist. This presentation will be a rare opportunity to view a significant number of the artist’s works and marks the first dedicated Spilliaert show in New York in nearly five decades.

On view will be a representative selection of works on paper that date primarily to the 1900s and 1910s—a creative and highly productive period in Spilliaert’s early career—and epitomize his singular style. These works, many of which are among the largest and most iconic in Spilliaert’s oeuvre, demonstrate the artist’s development of his distinctive expressionist language and illustrate the range of his practice even in these early years.

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About the Artist

Léon Spilliaert was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist who created broody, dark, enigmatic, and emotionally charged self-portraits and figurative scenes at the turn of the 20th century.

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About the Gallery
Since opening its doors in 1993, David Zwirner has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today, and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists and estates. Based in New York with spaces in Chelsea and the Upper East Side, David Zwirner expanded to Europe in 2012 with a gallery in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair district, and opened its first gallery in Asia in January 2018 in Central Hong Kong.
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