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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Sorciers dans la bourrasque ('Sorcerers in a Squall')
etching
1888
on simili-Japan paper
signed, dated and titled in pencil
a good, lightly tonal impression of the second, final state
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
in good condition
Plate 17,9 x 23,7 cm. (7 x 938 in.)
Sheet 35,7 x 47,7 cm. (14 x 1834 in.)
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 10 June 2004, lot 170.
Acquired at the above sale; by descent to the 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. 52 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 52 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 52 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 52, p. 147, ill. p. 93 (another impression ill.).
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