Patrick Derom Gallery

Patrick Derom Gallery is back at BRAFA with a special focus on Léon Spilliaert

The Brussels based Patrick Derom Gallery is now helmed in 2025 by Patrick Derom, his son Edouard and newly arrived Christine de Schaetzen. Spanning works from 1880 to the present day, the gallery presents an extraordinary array of modern movements from Symbolism to Pop Art, with occasional ventures into contemporary art. Artists presented this edition are Léon Spilliaert, Jean Delville, William Degouve de Nuncques, René Magritte, Ossip Zadkine, Alberto Magnelli, Lucio Fontana, André Lanskoy, Pol Bury, Bram Bogart, Evelyne Axell, Fabienne Verdier and Dirk Braeckman. Among their highlights for BRAFA’s 70th edition is a true masterpiece by Léon Spilliaert (Ostend, 1881-1946 Brussels).  “La Verrière” (The Glass Roof), dated 1909, offers a splendid glimpse into the artist’s world, portraying an annex of his home through a mesmerising interplay of perspectives and reflections. The mirror plays a key role here, as in other Spilliaert’s interiors. The mirror reflects other parts of the rooms and specific objects, but also enhances the opening of the glass roof to the rear façade of the house.