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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Démons me turlupinant ('Demons teasing me') - Salon des Cent Exposition James Ensor
lithographic poster in colours
1898
on wove paper
signed in pencil
with wide margins
the colours attenuated, light- and backboard staining and other, lesser defects
the sheet backed with cardboard
Image 56,7 x 37 cm. (2238 x 1458 in.)
Sheet 65,1 x 44,8 cm. (2578 x 1758 in.)
Provenance
Mira Jacob Wolfovska (1912-2004), Paris, with her blindstamp (not in Lugt); her posthumous gallery sale, Sotheby's, Paris, Collection Mira Jacob - Galerie Le Bateau-Lavoir, 23-24 September 2004, lot 221.
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. 131 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 141 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 141, pp. 342-343 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 119, p. 230; ill. pp. 219-221 (another impression ill.).
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