Name: JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Brand: Autoportrait à la lampe (Self-Portrait with Lamp)
Price: 1200.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Autoportrait à la lampe (Self-Portrait with Lamp)
etching
1886
on simili-Japan paper
signed, dated, titled and numbered 4 in pencil, counter-signed and titled verso
a very good, tonal impression of the third, final state
with wide margins
pale mount and light-staining
generally in good condition
Plate 9,9 x 6,7 cm. (3³⁄₄ x 2¹⁄₂ in.)
Sheet 31 x 23,8 cm. (12¹⁄₈ x 9³⁄₈ in.)

L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe Siècles) - Tome : Henri Leys - Henri de Braekeleer - James Ensor, Paris, 1925, no. 4 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 4 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 4, pp. 30-31 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 4, pp. 82-83 (another impression ill.)
X. Tricot, James Ensor - The Complete Prints, Roeselare, 2010, no. 4b, pp. 35 and 282 (another impression ill.).

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This small and vaguely sinister self-portrait is one of many made by Ensor throughout his career. The etching is closely related to a drawing made in the same year, today at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels (inv. no. 11150).
The artist, aged 26, here portrays himself seen in a mirror, faintly illuminated by the dim light of a shaded oil lamp.