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Description: James Ensor (1860-1949)
Le Calvaire
signed 'Ensor' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 'Ensor LA Calvaire 1936' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 29 3/8 in. (60 x 74.6 cm.)
Painted in March 1940

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Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cerf, Lawrence, Kansas.
Private collection, New Jersey (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, London, 26 June 1996, lot 227.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: New York, Cueto Projects, The Flowers of Evil Still Bloom, Les Fleurs du Mal, November 2008-January 2009.

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Published: G. Ollinger-Zinque, Ensor, een zelfportret, Brussels, 1977, p. 104, no. 27.
X. Tricot, Ensorianna, Ostend, 1985, p. 34, no. 20b.
X. Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Antwerp, 1992, vol. II, p. 680, no. 822 (illustrated).

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Notes: This painting was one of the last oils Ensor painted and is based on a color pencil drawing made by him in 1886.