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Property from an Important European Collection

James Ensor

Dahlias

Auction Closed

June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important European Collection 

James Ensor

1860 - 1949


Dahlias

signed Ensor. (lower right)

oil on canvas

65 by 50.2 cm. 25⅝ by 19¾ in.

83.5 by 68.5 cm. 32⅞ by 27 in.

Executed on 11 September 1932.

Augusta Boogaerts, Brussels

Gustave Van Geluwe, Brussels (acquired by 1945 and until 1956)

Phillips, London, 2 December 1985, lot 70

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above sale)

Sotheby's, London, 9 February 2005, lot 455 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paul Haesaerts, James Ensor, New York, 1959, no. 126, p. 317, illustrated

Xavier Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, vol. II, Antwerp, 1992, no. 602, p. 560, illustrated

Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Le groupe Flandre, 1932, no. 4

Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Hommage à James Ensor, 1945, no. 126, listed (dated 1925)

Brugge, Groeningemuseum, Hedendaagse Vlaamse Meesters uit de Verzameling Gustave Van Geluwe, 1956, no. 5

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., James Ensor 1860-1960, A Retrospective Centenary Exhibition, 1960, no. 80, listed (dated circa 1930)

Oostende, Stedelijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, James Ensor, 1960, no. 86