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JAMES ENSOR Insectes Singuliers.
Drypoint on imitation Japan paper, 1888. 114x154 mm; 4 5/8x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 5), before the second signature upper left and the additional work on the male insect's face. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-inked, early impression of this scarce drypoint.
This is both a self portrait (insect on right) and a portrait of Mariette Rousseau, the wife of Ensor's friend, Ernest Rousseau (insect in profile). Delteil 46; Taevernier 46; Elesh 46.
