Property of a Private Collector WILLIAM DEGOUVE DE NUNQUES (BELGIAN 1867 - 1935) Vers le Cap Formentor signed with initials and dated WD / de / N. 03 pastel 39 x 49.3 cm (15 1/4 x 19 1/2) PROVENANCE: Suzanne Degouve de Nuncques (née Poulet; the artist's second wife, previously married to the polar explorer Baron Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery) Thence by descent to the present owner, grandson of Baron Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery EXHIBITED: Namur, Musée Félicien Rops, William Degouve de Nunques, maître du mystère, 2012 LITERATURE: Hans Wijgergangs, Ronald Feltkamp and Théo Galle, William Degouve de Nuncques online catalogue raisonné, no. 3.1902.000, illustrated Cap de Formentor, refererred to colloquially as the meeting point of the four winds, lies at the eastern end of Majorca's Formentor peninsula.