LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

44.09 in. (112.00 cm.) (height) by 52.95 in. (134.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Ensor and dated 1885 (lower right)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Musée d'Art Moderne, Les XX, Quinzième Exposition, 1888, no. 11. Antwerp, Kunstvan Heden - L'Art Contemporain, 1905, no. 241. Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Tentoonstelling van werken van James Ensor, 1910, no. 5. Antwerp, Cercle Royal Aristique, Littéraire et Scientifique, Oeuvres de James Ensor, 1910, no. 5. Brussels, Troisième Salon de Printemps, 1911, no. 106. Antwerp, Kunstvan Heden - L'Art Contemporain, 1911, no. 151. Venice, XI. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Citta dei Venezia, 1914, no. 53. Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, James Ensor, 1920, no. 15. Antwerp, Kunstvan Heden - L'Art Contemporain, 1921, no. 54. Paris, Galerie Barbazanges, James Ensor, 1926. Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft, James Ensor, 1927, no. 23. Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, James Ensor, 1927. Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, James Ensor, 1927 Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, L’Art Belge depuis l’Impressionnisme, 1928, no. 73. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Retrospective James Ensor, 1929, no. 132. Amsterdam, E.J. van Wisselingh, Cent ans d’art belge, 1931, no. 71. Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, L'Oeuvre de James Ensor, 1932, no. 44 Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Exposition de la collection François Franck, 1933, no. 81 Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, L’Art Contemporain, 1935, no. 140 Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Ensor, 1939, no. 16. London, National Gallery, The Works of James Ensor, 1946, no. 14. Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Retrospective James Ensor, 1951, no. 61. New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art & St. Louis, The City Art Museum, James Ensor, 1951-1952, no. 22. Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, James Ensor, 1954, no. 36. London, Marlborough Fine Art, James Ensor 1860-1960, a retrospective centenary exhbition, 1960, no. 38. Ostend, Stedelijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, James Ensor, 1960, no. 45. Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller- Müller, Ensor 1860-1949, 1961, no. 29. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Ensor 1860-1949, 1961, no. 29. Basel, Kunsthalle, James Ensor, 1963, no. 33. Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, James Ensor, 1963, no. 33. Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, L’Art flamand d’Ensor à Permeke, 1970, no. 72. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Ensor to Permeke, Nine Flemish Painters, 1880-1950, 1971, no. 65. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago & New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, James Ensor, 1976-1977, no. 20, illustrated in color in the catalogue. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, L’Art en Belgique 1880-1950, 1978, no. 35. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Post-Impressionism, Cross-Currents in European Painting, 1979-80, no. 394. Zurich, Kunsthaus & Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, James Ensor, 1983 no. 50 (no. 55 in Antwerp), p. 121, illustrated in color in the catalogue. Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard & Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, James Ensor from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and Swiss Collections, 2013-14, no. 21, illustrated in color in the catalogue. Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1997-2015 (on loan)

Literature:

Emile Verhaeren, James Ensor, Brussels, 1908, p. 112. Grégoire Le Roy, James Ensor, Brussels & Paris, 1922, illustrated p. 70. Lucien Schwob, Ensor, Brussels & Paris, 1936, illustrated pl. XL. Paul Fierens, James Ensor, Paris, 1943, illustrated p. 76. Julio E. Payro, James Ensor, Buenos Aires, 1943, illustrated pl. 38. Paul Haesaerts, James Ensor, Brussels, 1957, no. 161, illustrated p. 276. Francine-Claire Legrand, Ensor cet inconnu, Brussels, 1971, no. 67, illustrated in color p. 21. Xavier Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1875-1902, Antwerp, 1992, vol. I, no. 256, illustrated pp. 230-23. Jacques Janssens, James Ensor, Paris, 1990, illustrated p. 37. Olivier Bertand & Stefaan Hautekeete, Rik Wouters, Jalons d'une vie, Antwerp, 1994, no. 47, illustrated in color p. 31 Fondation Pierre Gianadda, ed., Collection Louis et Evelyn Franck, Zurich, 1998, illustrated in color p. 37 Xavier Tricot, James Ensor, Ostfildern, 2009, no. 272, illustrated in color p. 57 & 291

Provenance:

François Franck, Antwerp (acquired by 1922). By descent from the above