Portrait of a Woman
1922
Pencil on paper
345 × 280 mm
Dated (lower right): “July 1922”
Inscribed (on the back): “Suzanne Fabry”

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Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Vente at Aguttes, Paris, Art Impressionniste & Moderne,

20 March 2025, lot 93

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Suzanne Fabry, daughter of the Symbolist painter Émile Fabry, trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels under Jean Delville and Constant Montald before co-founding the group L'Art Monumental with her father. From the 1930s onward, she exhibited at the Salons of Antwerp and Liège and subsequently worked at the Brussels Opera (La Monnaie), where she directed the costume workshop until her death.

Her portraits of women reveal a refined sensibility: faces often isolated, necks delicately elongated, clean lines, and profound gazes, imbued with gentleness or melancholy dominate her drawings. On our sheet, Fabry seeks a strict realism, favouring a stylised and poetic beauty, where each line suggests more than it describes.