JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949) Anger (La Colere), from The Deadly Sins...
JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Anger (La Colere), from The Deadly Sins (Les Péchés capitaux)
etching, with extensive detailed hand-coloring in gouache and watercolor, on simili-Japon paper, 1904, Elesh's second (final) state, signed, titled with alternative title 'Une jolie famille' and dedicated 'En songeant au vif esprit de mon ami Lucien Schwob' in pencil, countersigned and titled with alternate title in pencil on the reverse, the Museum of Modern Art notes that approximately twenty from the edition were hand-colored, with margins, in generally good condition, framed
Image: 3 ¾ x 5 7⁄8 in. (95 x 149 mm.)
Sheet: 6 ¾ x 10 ¾ in. (171 x 273 mm.)
Provenance
Delteil 121; Croquez 121; Taevernier 121; Elesh 126
Literature
The present lot is dedicated to Lucien Schwob, a Swiss artist, writer and friend of Ensor. Schwob published the monograph Ensor in 1936, two years after the pair met in Ostend.
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JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Anger (La Colere), from The Deadly Sins (Les Péchés capitaux)
etching, with extensive detailed hand-coloring in gouache and watercolor, on simili-Japon paper, 1904, Elesh's second (final) state, signed, titled with alternative title 'Une jolie famille' and dedicated 'En songeant au vif esprit de mon ami Lucien Schwob' in pencil, countersigned and titled with alternate title in pencil on the reverse, the Museum of Modern Art notes that approximately twenty from the edition were hand-colored, with margins, in generally good condition, framed
Image: 3 ¾ x 5 7⁄8 in. (95 x 149 mm.)
Sheet: 6 ¾ x 10 ¾ in. (171 x 273 mm.)
Provenance
Delteil 121; Croquez 121; Taevernier 121; Elesh 126
Literature
The present lot is dedicated to Lucien Schwob, a Swiss artist, writer and friend of Ensor. Schwob published the monograph Ensor in 1936, two years after the pair met in Ostend.
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Time, Location
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