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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Cortège Infernal ('Infernal Procession')
etching
1886
on wove paper
signed, dated 1887 and titled in pencil
counter-signed, inscribed AB and titled in pencil verso
a rich, tonal impression of the second, final state
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
pale light-staining, otherwise in good condition
Plate 22 x 26,8 cm. (878 x 1058 in.)
Sheet 35,6 x 47,8 cm. (14 x 1834 in.)
Provenance
Kurt Sponagel-Hirzel (1887-1961), Zurich (Lugt 2929a); then by descent; possibly sold by Fischer, Lucerne, 3 & 6-7 December 1965.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 14 June 2003, lot 1138.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to present owners.
Literature
L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe Siècles) - Tome XIX: Henri Leys - Henri de Braekeleer - James Ensor, Paris, 1925, no. 10 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 10 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 10 II, pp. 36-37 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 9 II, p. 91, ill. p. 20 (another impression ill.).
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