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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Le Christ aux Mendiants ('Christ among the Beggars')
drypoint and etching
1895
on Van Gelder Zonen laid paper, with a partial watermark
signed and dated in pencil, titled in pencil verso
a very fine, early impression of the first state (of two)
printing with many horizontal wiping marks across the plate, a light plate tone and many filing marks along the beveled plate edges
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
some pale foxing
generally in good condition
Plate 93 x 14,2 cm. (378 x 558 in.)
Sheet 16,8 x 23,9 cm. (658 x 938 in.)
Provenance
Loys Henri Delteil (1869-1927), Paris (Lugt 773); his posthumous sale, Drouot (expert Le Garrec), Paris, 13-15 June 1928, lot 125 (‘très belle épreuve sur Hollande, signée. (Légères taches au verso.)’)
Unidentified, a small round black stamp verso (not in Lugt).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 10 June 2004, lot 182.
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. 102 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 101 (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. 250-251 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 103, p. 210, ill. pp. 186-187 (another impression ill.).
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The printer, dealer and expert Loys Delteil, who once owned the present sheet, published his catalogue raisonné of Ensor's prints as part of his series of oeuvre catalogues Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré in 1925.

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