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Artist or Maker: James Ensor (1860-1949)

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Description: Baisers de fleurs, caresses de fruits
signed 'Ensor' (lower right); signed and inscribed 'Baisers de fleurs caresses de fruits J.Ensor' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
6 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (15.6 x 21.6 cm.)
Painted in 1939

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Provenance: Augusta Boogaerts, Brussels.
G. Weber, Antwerp.
G. Weber, Jr, St.-Katelijne-Waver.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1986, lot 132.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Almelo, Kunstkring De Waag, Tentoonstelling van de verzameling Weber, April - May 1963, no. 19.

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Published: J. Ensor, Liber Veritas, 1929-1941, f.48v.
J. Ensor, Memoranda, 1939.
X. Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, vol. II, 1902-1941, Antwerp, 1992, no. 787 (illustrated p. 662).

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