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Prise d'une ville étrange (Capture of a strange Town)
Details
James Ensor (1860-1949)
Prise d'une ville étrange (Capture of a strange Town)
etching extensively hand-coloured with watercolour and touches of zinc white, 1888, on simili-Japan paper, Elesh's fourth (final) state, signed, dated, titled, and dedicated Epreuve teinté de mes couleurs/ pour mon grand ami de France/ Albert Croquez./ James Ensor in pencil, countersigned and titled by the artist and inscribed by Croquez Epreuve coloriée par J. Ensor en août 1930 in pencil verso, with wide margins, some soft creasing in the margins, remains of old tape at lower left verso, faintly showing through recto, otherwise in good condition
Plate: 179 x 239 mm., Sheet: 355 x 477 mm.
Prise d'une ville étrange (Capture of a strange Town)
etching extensively hand-coloured with watercolour and touches of zinc white, 1888, on simili-Japan paper, Elesh's fourth (final) state, signed, dated, titled, and dedicated Epreuve teinté de mes couleurs/ pour mon grand ami de France/ Albert Croquez./ James Ensor in pencil, countersigned and titled by the artist and inscribed by Croquez Epreuve coloriée par J. Ensor en août 1930 in pencil verso, with wide margins, some soft creasing in the margins, remains of old tape at lower left verso, faintly showing through recto, otherwise in good condition
Plate: 179 x 239 mm., Sheet: 355 x 477 mm.
Provenance
Albert Croquez (1886-1949), Paris; a gift from the artist in 1930.
Mira Jacob Wolfovska (1912-2004), Paris, with her blindstamp (not in Lugt).
Mira Jacob Wolfovska (1912-2004), Paris, with her blindstamp (not in Lugt).
Literature
Delteil, Croquez, Taevernier, Elesh 33
Exhibited
James Ensor - Oeuvre gravé Collection Mira Jacob, Editions Les Musée de la Ville, Strasbourg/ Kunstmuseum Basel, 1995-96, no. 40.
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