Details
JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949)
Le parasol
signed 'Ensor' (lower left)
oil on cardboard
12 5⁄8 x 9 ¼ in. (32.1 x 23.5 cm.)
Painted in 1880
Provenance
Albin & Emma Lambotte, Antwerp, by 1908 and until at least 1960.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, and thence by descent.
Literature
É. Verhaeren, James Ensor, Brussels, 1908, p. 108.
G. Le Roy, James Ensor, Brussels & Paris, 1922, p. 174.
P. Haesaerts, James Ensor, London, 1958, nos. 54 & 91 (illustrated; titled 'Chinese Screen').
X. Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the paintings, Antwerp, 1992, no. 111, p. 96 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Kunstkring, Tentoonstelling van werken van James Ensor, September - October 1910, no. 25.
Antwerp, Cercle Royal Artistique, Littéraire et Scientifique, Exposition d'œuvres de James Ensor, 1910, no. 24.
Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Hommage a James Ensor, October - November 1945, no. 24, n.p. (with incorrect title).
Antwerp, Museé Royal des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective James Ensor, June - August 1951, no. 49, p. 27 (titled 'Petites chinoiseries').
Ostend, Musée des Beaux-Arts, James Ensor, July - August 1960, no. 32, n.p. (titled 'Petite chinoiserie'; dated '1882').
Ostend, Mu.ZEE, Rose, Rose, Rose à mes yeux, James Ensor en het stilleven in België van 1830 tot 1930, December 2023 - April 2024, no. 30.

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