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The Complete Works of Philippe Smit
by Andreas Narzt and Florence Castellani

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Photo: Michiel Elsevier Stokmans, NL; © FdDPS
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Classification: Pastel
Medium: Pastel
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1914
PS 98
Gas Factory, Hilversum
Before 1914
Pastel on cardboard
29 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (74 x 100 cm) (sight size)
Signed lower right: Philippe
On the back: a metal plate: Mme Smit on the protective backing board upper right.
Exhibitions
No known exhibitions.
Literature & Primary Sources
Philippe Smit. ALS to René Massé. Hilversum, n.d. [received 9.
ALS to René Massé. Recloses, 18 March 1925.
Notes

"[...] alors si tu veux tu pourra[s]/ demander a mon père et/ tu pourra[s] aller la1 cherchez/ dans ma chambre avec lui/ car j’avais tout à fait/ oublié. et tu verra[s] peut être/ en même temps ce grand/ pastel de fleurs des champs que j’ai fait a Osny. et les/ moissonneurs et aussi le/ pastel que j'avais rap[p]orté/ de Hollande des Usines de Gaz/ avec une plaine de bruyère/ comments les trouves tu?/ Oh René j’ai encore un tableau/ a Osny des champs de coquelicots/ ça serait peut etre beaucoup de/ te demandez que tu pouvait/ le cherchez Mais je craint/ que tu ne puis sortir de/ Paris? [...]" [sic] (... if you like you could ask my father and you could fetch it1 with him from my room, as I forgot it completely. And maybe you will see the same time the large pastel of field flowers which I did in Osny. And the Harvesters and also the pastel which I brought back from Holland of gas factories with a field of heather how do you like them? Oh René I have another painting of poppy fields in Osny, perhaps that is too much to ask to fetch it. But I fear that you cannot leave Paris? ...) (Philippe Smit 1914)

A letter from 1925 to René Massé suggests that this work "un vieux pastel" (an old pastel) shows a "coin de Hilversum" (part of Hilversum) and to which the artist is "beaucoup" (very much) attached.2


1. The doll for René Massé’s daughter Eliane.
2. Philippe Smit 1925.

Record last updated March 21, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Narzt, Andreas and Castellani, Florence. "Gas Factory, Hilversum, Before 1914 (PS 98)." In The Complete Works of Philippe Smit. www.philippesmit.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=98 (accessed on June 29, 2025).