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Description: Les pochards signed 'Ensor' (lower right) oil on canvas 33 1/8 x 41 in. (84.1 x 104.1 cm.) Painted in 1910 PROVENANCE J.F. van Missiel, LiŠge; his sale, Galerie Royale, Brussels, 30 March 1918, lot 5. Yvan Lamberty, Brussels; his sale, Galerie Giroux, Brussels, 11 February 1929, lot 5. Anon. sale, Galerie Giroux, Brussels, 7 December 1931, lot 51. Anon. sale, Galerie Giroux, Brussels, 6 May 1933, lot 76. Anon. sale, Galerie Giroux, Brussels, 19 October 1935, lot 138. Anon. sale, Galerie Giroux, Brussels, 13 December 1956, lot 20. W. Kleinberg, Antwerp. Anon. sale, Campo, Antwerp, 29 April 1981, lot 642. Andr‚ Cuvelier, Brussels. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1983, lot 20. Anon. sale, Hotel New Otani, Osaka, 11 December 1987, lot 25. Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva. LITERATURE G. le Roy, James Ensor, Brussels & Paris, 1922, p. 192. P. Colin, James Ensor, Leipzig, 1931, p. 15 (illustrated). F.C. Legrand & G. Ollinger-Zinque, Ensor Necunoscutul, Bucharest, 1975, no. 58. X. Tricot, Ensoriana, Ostend, 1985, p. 33, no. 15b. X. Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonn‚ of the Paintings, vol. II, London, 1992, no. 439 (illustrated p. 445). EXHIBITION Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, R‚trospective James Ensor, 1929, no. 259. Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Huinck & Scherjon, Werken door James Ensor, 1930, no. 14. Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Hommage … James Ensor, 1945, no. 43. Basel, Kunsthalle, James Ensor, 1963, no. 82. This exhibition later travelled to M쳌nster, Landesmuseum. Stuttgart, W쳌rttembergischer Kunstverein, Ensor ein Maler aus der Sp„ten 19 Jahrhundert, 1972, no. 53. Brussels, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, James Ensor, 1989, no. 5. Madrid, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya, James Ensor, March-May 1996, no. 42 (illustrated in the catalogue pp. 144-145). NOTES The present work is the second of two versions of this subject. The first version was painted in 1880.