Name: JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Brand: Le Christ tourmenté par les démons ('Christ tormented by Demons')
Price: 1500.00 GBP
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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Le Christ tourmenté par les démons ('Christ tormented by Demons')
etching and drypoint
1895
on Japon nacré paper
signed, dated and titled Le Christ agonisant tourmenté par les démons in pencil
counter-signed, titled and initialed AB in pencil verso
a fine, rich and tonal impression of the only state
printing with many wiping scratches and filing marks at the beveled plate edges
with wide margins, a deckle edge below, probably the full sheet
in very good condition
Plate 18 x 24,1 cm. (7¹⁄₈ x 9¹⁄₂ in.)
Sheet 29,6 x 40,3 cm. (11³⁄₄ x 16 in.)

Mira Jacob Wolfovska (1912-2004), Paris (without her mark); her posthumous gallery sale, Sotheby's, Paris, Collection Mira Jacob Galerie le Bateau-Lavoir, 23-24 September 2004, lot 212.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe Siècles) - Tome XIX: Henri Leys - Henri de Braekeleer - James Ensor, Paris, 1925, no. 93 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 94 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 94, pp. 234-235 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 96, p. 203, ill. p. 171 (another impression ill.).

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