A painting by Henry de Groux for Marseille

17/2/25 - Acquisition - Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts - He refused to see his works exhibited alongside "the execrable Pot of Sunflowers by Monsieur Vincent, or any other agent provocateur". Henry de Groux was therefore absent from the Salon des XX in 1890, where Van Gogh presented his Sunflowers. He even came close to a duel for having insulted Toulouse Lautrec and Signac, who had supported the Dutch master. He left the Group of XX that year, but shortly afterwards exhibited his famous painting The Mocking of Christ at the triennial Salon in Brussels, then in Paris, the embodiment of the misunderstood artist.
Born in Brussels, Henry de Groux was the son of the painter Charles de Groux (or Degroux), one of the first representatives of social realism. Henry trained with Jean-François…