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Description: Masques regardant une tortue signed 'Ensor' (lower right) oil on canvas laid down on panel 83/4 x 143/4in. (22.2 x 37.4cm.) Painted in 1894 PROVENANCE E. Georges, Brussels. Baron Lambert, Brussels. Anon. sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 25 November 1964, lot 230 (as 'Grimaces'). Acquired at the above sale by the present owner. LITERATURE E. Verhaeren, James Ensor, Brussels, 1892, p. 118. G. Le Roy, James Ensor, Brussels, 1922, p. 185. P. Haesaerts, James Ensor, Brussels, 1957, no. 313 (illustrated p. 289). X. Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonn‚ of the Paintings, vol. I, 1875-1902, Antwerp, 1992, no. 358 (illustrated p. 345). EXHIBITION Hyogo, Kanagawa, Miyagi & Saitama, 1983-1984, no. 56. Hamburg, Kunstverein, James Ensor, Dec. 1986-Feb. 1987, no. 24. Utrecht, Centraal Museum, James Ensor 1860-1949, Aug.-Oct. 1993. Brussels, Mus‚es royaux des Beaux-Arts, James Ensor, Sept. 1999-Feb. 2000, no. 126 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 189).