Name: JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Brand: Les adieux de Napoléon
Price: 10000.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Les adieux de Napoléon
signed and dated Ensor 89 (lower right); signed and inscribed James Ensor 27 rue de Flandre Ostende (on the reverse)
wax crayon and pencil on paper
24,4 x 29,9 cm. (9⁵⁄₈ x 11³⁄₄ in.)
Executed in 1889

The artist's estate.
Mr & Mrs Albert Niels, Rhode-Saint-Genèse; probably acquired from the above circa 1950-1951.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 29 October 1980, lot 551.
Sotheby's, London, 1 April 1981, lot 170.
With Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva (their stock no. JK 3235); acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above on 4 July 1983; then by descent to the present owners.

G. Lemmen, 'James Ensor - Peintre, Graveur, Humoriste', in: James Ensor, Peintre & Graveur, Paris, 1899, p. 99, ill. p. 24.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, James Ensor, January - February 1929, no. 150 (titled 'Napoleon a Waterloo' and dated '1890'; presumably relating to this sheet).
Antwerp, Musée royal des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective James Ensor, June - August 1951, no. 164, p. 46 (titled 'Napoléon à Waterloo' and with incorrect medium).
Hamburg, Kunstverein, James Ensor, December 1986 - February 1987, no. 190, p. 173.
Brussels, Musée royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Ensor, September 1999 - February 2000, no. 258, p. 285 (ill.).
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers - Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, Part I, March 1999 - October 2000, p. 95, ill. p. 40.
Herford, MARTa Herford, Bitte nehmen Sie Platz Herr Ensor, November - December 2004, ill. pp. 74-75.

The Ensor Advisory Committee has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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This drawing is closely related to the considerably smaller etching created eight years later, in 1897 (see lot 352).