Jakob Smits - The kiss of Judas

Oil on panel
c. 1908
22 by 16 cm

Jakob Smits is one of the pioneers of modern art in Belgium. The Belgian futurist Jules Schmalzigaug for example had a great admiration for Smits` use of white. In 1908 Schmalzigaug described Smits` The kiss of Judas (probably another version of the same subject) as “the lively evocation of immanent disaster” [Onze Kunst, VII, 1908]. The work in our collection was part of the Jakob Smits retrospective exhibition in 1950 at the Salon des Beaux Arts in Charleroi.