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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
JAMES ENSOR Peste Dessous, Peste Dessus, Peste Partout.
Etching printed in dark brownish black on cream laid paper, 1904. 197x297 mm; 7 3/4x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good, richly-inked impression.
One of many of Ensor's dark commentaries on modern life (his title translates to Pollution Under, Pollution Above, Pollution Everywhere); there are portraits (from left to right) of Ernest Rousseau; Ensor's sister; Willy Finch; the artist; and Mrs. Rousseau. Delteil 127; Taevernier 127; Elesh 132.
