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Artist or Maker: James Ensor (1860-1949)

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Description: La charge des Walkyries
signed 'Ensor' (lower left); signed, dated and titled 'J Ensor La charge des Walkyries 13 Février 1938' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
22 3/8 x 27 1/8 in. (56.8 x 68.9 cm.)
Painted in February 1938

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Provenance: Baron A. de Broqueville, Brussels.
H. de Broqueville, Rhode-St-Genèse.
J. Van Riel, Antwerp.
Acquired from the above by the present owners.

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Exhibited: Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Ensor, June - July 1939, no. 81.
Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Hommage à James Ensor, October - November 1945, no. 142.
London, National Gallery, The Works of James Ensor, 1946, no. 52.
Charleroi, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, XXIII e Salon: Hommage à James Ensor, March - April 1949, no. 48.
Boitsfort, Maison Haute, 5 e Salon: James Ensor, April - May 1950, no. 43.
Geneva, Galerie Motte, Exposition James Ensor, May - July 1966, no. 14.
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Ensor, Delvaux, Magritte, March - April 1969, no. 1.
Leuven, Halles Universitaires, Les peintres expressionistes en Belgique, January - February 1970, no. 24.
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, James Ensor, August - October 1983, no. 128.

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Published: The artist's handlist (Liber Veritatis), 1929-1941, f. 43r.
P. Fierens, James Ensor, Paris, 1943, p. 143 (illustrated).
R. Delevoy, Ensor, Anvers, 1981, no. 81 (illustrated p. 117).
X. Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, vol. II, 1902-1941, Antwerp, no. 743 (illustrated p. 640).

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Notes: Property from a European Collection

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