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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Crânes et Masques ('Skulls and Masks')
etching
1888
on simili-Japan paper
signed and dated in pencil
counter-signed and titled in pencil verso
a fine, tonal impression of the second, final state
with wide margins
in good condition
Plate 9,8 x 13,8 cm. (378 x 512 in.)
Sheet 16 x 24,8 cm. (614 x 934 in.)
Provenance
Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 13 June, 1968, lot 277 (together with Mon Portrait en 1960).
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe Siècles) - Tome : Henri Leys - Henri de Braekeleer - James Ensor, Paris, 1925, no. 29 (another impression ill.).
A. Croquez, L'œuvre gravé de James Ensor, Paris, 1935, no. 29 (another impression ill.).
A. Taevernier, James Ensor - catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques, Ghent, 1973, no. 29, pp. 84-85 (another impression ill.).
J. Elesh, James Ensor - The Complete Graphic Work, The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, 1982, no. 29, p. 116, ill. p. 56-57 (an impression of the first state ill.).
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