James Ensor (1860-1949)
La promenade sentimentale (Départ pour Cythère)
signed and dated lower right Ensor 1915, and signed again and inscribed with title on the reverse
oil on canvas
100 x 116 cm
Provenance
C. Snauwaert, Brussels
Baron E. van Zuylen, Liège
Baron Lilar, Antwerp/Brussels
Literature
Grégoire Le Roy, James Ensor, Brussels/Paris 1922, p. 195
Xavier Tricot, James Ensor Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1902-1941 Volume II, Antwerp 1992, no. 463, p. 465 (ill.) and p. 391 (colour ill.)
Exhibited
Ostend, Kursaal, Oeuvre de James Ensor, 1931, cat.no. 47
Ostend, Galerie Studio, Exposition d'oeuvre du Baron James Ensor, 1933, cat.no. 7
Liège, Banque de Bruxelles, circa 1955, cat.no. 2 (as: Départ pour Cythère)
Lot Essay
There is a drawing from 1918 with the same subject (see Le Roy, op.cit, p. 195)