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Artist or Maker: James Ensor (1860-1949)

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Description: L'estacade
signed 'Ensor' (lower left)
oil on canvas
12 3/4 x 16 in. (32.5 x 40.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1880-1882

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Provenance: O. Fischer, Antwerp & Israel.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 October 1995, lot 22.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective James Ensor, January - February 1929, no. 104 (dated '1882').
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, James Ensor, September - November 1981, no. 12 (dated '1882').
London, Barbican Art Gallery, James Ensor 'Theatre Masks', September - December 1997, no. 12 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 45). Madrid, Banco Bilbao, James Ensor, March - May 1996 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 78).
Brussels, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, James Ensor rétrospective, September 1999 - February 2000 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 94).
Ostend, Musée d'Art Moderne, Marines, côte à côte, April - September 2003 (illustrated pp. 246-247).

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Published: E. Verhaeren, James Ensor, Brussels, 1908, p. 32.
X. Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, vol. I, 1875-1902, Antwerp, 1992, no. 164 (illustrated p. 153).
M. Draguet, James Ensor, Paris, 1999, p. 31 (illustrated in colour).

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