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JAMES ENSOR La Chimère.
Etching on imitation Japan paper, 1888. 91x64 mm; 3 3/4x2 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin, and counter signed and titled in pencil, verso. A very good impression of this scarce etching.
The faintly etched portraits, lower left and lower right, are Ernest Rousseau and his son, also named Ernest. The son, a medical student and amateur entomologist, was a close friend of Ensor's. Delteil 26; Taevernier 25; Elesh 25.
