Lot 68
  • 68

James Ensor

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • James Ensor
  • La Vengeance de Hop-Frog (D., T. 112; E. 115)
  • etching
  • plate: 366 by 256mm 14 1/8 by 9 7/8 in
  • sheet: 470 by 351mm 18 1/2 by 13 7/8 in
Etching with drypoint, 1898, a good impression of the second (final) state, signed and dated in pencil, titled, countersigned in pencil verso, on simili japon, framed 

Provenance

Ex coll. G. Behaegel, Pittem (not in Lugt)

Condition

With wide margins, in good condition apart from minor rubbing around platemark and in lower margin, occasional pale foxmarks, two pin holes at right and left sheet edge at centre, soft unobtrusive creasing along upper sheet edge, remains of hinging at upper sheet edge and lower corners verso, associated rubbing and minor skinning long upper sheet edge, occasional soft rubbing elsewhere, framed.
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