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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Masques intrigués ('Curious Masks')
etching
1904
on simili-Japan paper
signed and dated in pencil
counter-signed in pencil verso
a very good, strong impression of the only state
with wide margins
light-staining
otherwise in good condition
Plate 8 x 12 cm. (318 x 434 in.)
Sheet 16,1 x 24,6 cm. (638 x 934 in.)
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 1 June 2007, lot 243.
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. 128 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 128 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 128 , pp. 316-317 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 133, p. 247, ill. p. 250-251 (another impression ill.).
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