In 1883 Khnopff was a founder-member of Les XX, the most avant-garde and internationalist art group in Europe. He designed their logo and exhibited Listening to Schumann (1883), a painting characterized by a Symbolist concern for introspection and an impressionist style indebted to James Ensor's Russian Music (1881).
The painting is signed and dated upper left: FERNAND KHNOPFF 1883.
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