Petites figures bizarres (Tavernier 53)

Details

James Ensor (BELGIAN, 1860-1949)
Petites figures bizarres (Tavernier 53)
etching, 1888, second state on simili Japon, signed and dated in pencil, with margins, some creasing, a foxmark in the right margin, an indentation in the lower margin, the reverse with pencil inscriptions and residual paper with related gluestaining, framed
P. 139 x 98 mm.; S. 297 x 240 mm.

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Lot Essay

The etching portrays the Rousseau family; close friends of the artist. Ernest Rousseau and his wife are showing on the right, their son in the upper left, the sister of Ernest in the middle. In the lower left corner a selfportrait of Ensor. This print is also known under the title "My biestly friends".

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