{"product_id":"van-doren-bloei-van-de-gagel","title":"Bog Myrtle in Bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBog Myrtle in Bloom – A marsh that catches the light\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover 'La fleurison de myrica', the most atmospheric design from our collaboration with the Emile Van Dorenmuseum in Genk. Bog myrtle – a shrub of wet heathland – flowers in April and May, putting out golden catkins. Van Doren painted that moment on a boggy heath: a dark palette, royal-blue strokes, pale blue pools reflecting the light, and above them a bank of clouds set down in rough, sketchy strokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVan Doren was no marginal figure. In 1892 he won the Prix Donnay, the landscape prize of the Brussels Academy, co-founded the Société Royale des Beaux-Arts alongside Constantin Meunier and Fernand Khnopff, and enjoyed serious royal admiration. Leopold II bought his work early on, according to the museum Albert I and Queen Elisabeth never missed one of his exhibitions, and King Baudouin later hung a Van Doren in his study in Opgrimbie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the sock, the canvas became a camel-brown foot for the peaty ground, a light blue cuff for the sky, and in between the pools, the golden catkins and the dark shrubs. Knitted in, not printed – the colours are part of the sock itself, so they don't fade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'La fleurison de myrica' · oil on canvas, 101.5 × 70.5 cm · collection Emile Van Dorenmuseum, Genk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA one-time run of 700 pairs. When they're gone, they're gone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kunstsokken","offers":[{"title":"36-40","offer_id":59360970998105,"sku":"CH-FLM-BRN-3640","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"41-46","offer_id":59360971030873,"sku":"CH-FLM-BRN-4146","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0496\/7117\/6351\/files\/Untitled_design-146.jpg?v=1789107478","url":"https:\/\/www.kunstsokken.de\/en\/products\/van-doren-bog-myrtle-in-bloom","provider":"Kunstsokken","version":"1.0","type":"link"}