Victor Servranckx (Diegem near Brussels 1897 – 1965 Vilvoorde). ”Opus 5 (‘Les Croisades’ or ‘Poème épique’)”. 1927 Oil on canvas. 70 × 45 cm (27 ½ × 17 ¾ in.). Signed and dated lower right: SERVRANCKX 1927. Titled and dated in pencil on the stretcher: 5-1927. the painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné of paintings and sculptures of Victor Servranckx of Xavier Tricot, Ostende.– [3047] Provenance: Jozef De Bruycker, Roeselare (acquired directly from the artist, thence by descent to the present owner) Exhibition: Victor Servranckx. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1929 (without cat.) / Exposition De Boeck, Flouquet, Gailliard, Servranckx. Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, 1929, cat. no. 31 (Peinture n° 51927 [coll. M. De B.]) / Abstrakte Kunst. Frankfurt a.M., Bund Das Neue Frankfurt, 1931, cat. no. 13 or 14 / Salon Quatriennal de Belgique. Liège, palace des Beaux-Arts, 1931 / Victor Servranckx. Frankfurt a.M., Bund Das Neue Frankfurt, 1932 (without cat.) / Victor Servranckx. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1947, cat. no. 36 Literature and illustration: Het Laatste Nieuws (Brussels), vol. 42, no. 51, 20.2.1929, ill. p. 5 / Savoir et Beauté (La Louvière), vol. 10, no. 4, April 1930, ill. p. 162 / Opbouwen (Antwerp), vol. 2, no. 5, Febr. 1931, ill. 66 ("Schilderij”) / Maandblad voor Oude en Jonge Kunst (Gent u. Antwerpen), Nr. 2, Febr. 1931, Abb. 66 ("Schilderij“) / L’Équerre (Lüttich), vol. 3, no. 12, June 1931, ill. p. 19 / Europe (Torhout), 1959, no. 4, ill. p. 46 ("Epiek voor een held”) We would like to thank Xavier Tricot, Ostende, for kindly providing additional information