Mes Houris: A man smoking a cigar fantasising about women

細節

James Ensor (1860-1949)
Mes Houris: A man smoking a cigar fantasising about women
signed 'Ensor' and with inscription 'No2 Mes houris James Ensor 27 rue de Flandre Ostende' (verso)
coloured chalk heightened with white on light brown paper
11¼ x 7¾ in. (285 x 195 mm.)

來源

Purchased at Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, May 1962, lot 288.

出版

G. Leroy, James Ensor, Brussels and Paris, 1922, p. 193.
X. Tricot, James Ensor, catalogue raisonné of the paintings, II, Antwerp and London, 1992, p. 533, under no. 565.

拍品專文

Connected to a lost painting published in L'Independance, 11 July 1927, X. Tricot, op. cit., no. 565.
Sabine Taevernier has kindly confirmed the attribution on the basis of a photograph.