James Ensor

Diables rossant anges et archanges (Delteil, Taevernier 23)

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November 19, 06:28 PM GMT

Estimate

35,000 - 45,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collector

James Ensor

1860 - 1949

Diables rossant anges et archanges (Delteil, Taevernier 23)

Signed James Ensor, dated 1888 and titled (lower right); titled (lower left); signed James Ensor and titled (on the verso)

Etching with watercolor on paper

Image: 9 3/4 by 11 3/8 in. (24.8 by 28.7 cm)

Sheet: 14 1/8 by 18 3/4 in. (35.8 by 47.6 cm)

Framed: 21 1/4 by 19 1/2 in. (53.9 by 49.5 cm)

Executed in 1888.

Please note there is updated dimensions and provenance available for this lot.

Cleomir Jussiant, Antwerp

Private Collection, Belgium (and sold: Christie's, Amsterdam, November 17, 2010, lot 127)

Acquired at the above sale

Auguste Taevernier, James Ensor, Illustrated Catalogue of His Engravings, Their Critical Description and Inventary of the Plates, Ghent, 1973, no. 23, illustration of the engraving p. 72