William Degouve de Nuncques
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William Degouve de Nuncques (Monthermé, France February 28 1867 - Stavelot, Belgium March 1 1935) was a Belgian Symbolist artist who belonged to Les XX and Le Salon de la Libre Esthétique. Dutch artist Jan Toorop shared a studio with Degouve when he was staying in Brussels. In 1884 he married a sister-in-law of Émile Verhaeren. In Paris he met Rodin, Puvis de Chavannes and Maurice Denis. According to Il Giornale Nuovo Degouve was "a scion of an ancient, noble French family, largely self-taught as an artist, who produced a number of marvellously atmospheric works during the course of the 1890s. He is supposed to have said ‘To make a painting, all you need to do is to take some paints, draw some lines, and fill the rest up with feelings.’" Degouve is mentioned somewhat unfavorably in the anthology of Symbolist art Dreamers of Decadence.
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- Impressionism to Symbolism The Belgian Avant-Garde 1880-1900. Royal Academy of Arts, London 7 July - 2 October 1994. Edited by MaryAnne Stevens with Robert Hoozee.
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