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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
JAMES ENSOR Scènes de la vie du Christ.
Group of 20 (of 32) color lithographs on 8 sheets of cream laid paper, 1921. Four sheets measure 400x505 mm; 15 3/4x20 inches, full margins; the other four sheets measure 200x255 mm; 8x10 inches, full margins. Artist's proofs, aside from the total edition of 310. Each lithograph signed in pencil, lower right. Printed by Goosens, Brussels. Published by Galerie Giroux, Brussels.
Ex-collection private collection, Antwerp and Knokke-Zoute, Belgium, thence by descent to the current owner.
This group consists of 4 uncut pages, each page with 4 color lithographs, and 4 separate sheets with one color lithograph each. One of the uncut sheets with heavy brown time stain, the other sheets with pale time stain. Extremely scarce in this issue.
We have not found another group of Ensor color lithographs on uncut sheets in the past 20 years. Delteil 141; Taevernier 139; Elesh 141.
