Name: JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Brand: La Cathédrale (Première Version)
Price: 2400.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
La Cathédrale (Première Version)
etching
1886
on simili-Japan paper
signed and dated in pencil, countersigned and titled verso
a very good impression of the third state (of four)
printing with much tone and plate impurities in the sky
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
some pale light-staining and pinpoint foxing
generally in good condition
Plate 24,7 x 19 cm. (9³⁄₄ x 7³⁄₈ in.)
Sheet 47,8 x 35,5 cm. (18⁷⁄₈ x 14 in.)

Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 17 June 1965, lot 243.
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. 7 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 7 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 7, pp. 44-45 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 7, pp. 88-89; ill. p. 16 (another impression ill; the illustration on p. 17 erroneously shows a detail of the second version).

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