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Description: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

1860-1949
RAYONS DE PALETTE

60 by 50cm., 23 5/8 by 19 5/8 in.

Painted on 23rd March 1937.

signed Ensor (lower right); signed Ensor on the reverse and titled on the stretcher

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Collection Curvers-Delcourt, Tilff
Hans Joachim & Amélie Ziersch, Munich
Sale: Christie's, London, 31st March 1987, lot 93
Sale: Christie's, London, 3rd December 1991, lot 232
Galerie Oscar De Vos, Saint Martens-Latem
Acquired from the above by the present owner

EXHIBITED

Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Ensor dans les Collections Privées II, 1985
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, James Ensor - Belgien um 1900, 1989, no. 48
Oostende, Oostende Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Van Ensor tot Delvaux, 1996-97

LITERATURE

Xavier Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, London, 1997, vol. II, no. 706, illustrated p. 620