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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Le Bal fantastique
etching with drypoint
1889
on stiff Japan paper
signed and dated in pencil, signed and titled in pencil verso
a very fine impression of the second, final state
printing with much burr and a selectively wiped plate tone
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
light-stained
otherwise in good condition
Plate 7,9 x 12 cm. (318 x 434 in.)
Sheet 13,2 x 19,9 cm. (534 x 7.7/9 in.)
Provenance
A. Weinmüller, Munich, 2 November 1965, lot 79.
Acquired at the above sale; then 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. 75 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 74 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 74, pp. 190-191 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 75, p. 178, ill. pp. 136-7 (another impression ill.).
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