James Ensor

Le Fantôme (Taevernier 73)

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December 14, 06:45 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an American Private Collector

James Ensor

1860 - 1949

Le Fantôme (Taevernier 73)

Signed James Ensor and dated 1889 (lower right); titled (lower left)

Etching with gouache and watercolor

Image: 3 by 4 5/8 in. (7.6 by 11.7 cm); Sheet: 9 1/4 by 11 3/8 in. (23.4 by 28.8 cm)

Framed: 11 3/4 by 13 1/2 in. (29.9 by 34.3 cm)

Executed in 1889.

Please note that the medium of this work is etching with gouache and watercolor, not pastel.

Private Collection, Belgium (and sold: Christie's, Amsterdam, November 15, 2011, lot 2)
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. 73, illustration of the engraving p. 186