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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES ENSOR Le petit chien.
Charcoal on wove paper, circa 1900. 110x162 mm; 4 5/8x6 1/4 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower center recto.
Ex-collection private collection, New York; by descent to the current owner, private collection, New York.
Ensor (1860-1949, see lots 113-119) made sketches of small dogs throughout his career, adopting a pug named Gypsy the spring of 1885. Described by Ensor in a letter to his close friend Mariette Rousseau, Gypsy was a 'minuscule pug that fills the house in the evening with his significant presence." A portrait of a small pug-like dog appeared as a patch over the colored pencil drawing The Temptation of Saint Anthony, held by the Art Institute of Chicago. The same portrait appears in the center of the etching Musiciens fantastiques, 1888 (see Delteil 43).
