Le port d'Ostende

Details

James Ensor (1860-1949)
Le port d'Ostende
signed 'ENSOR' (lower left); signed again and inscribed 'Port d'Ostende Ensor' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
8 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. (21 x 27 cm.)
Executed in April 1936

Provenance

Leicester Galleries, London.
G. Harvey-Samuel, London, by whom acquired from the above in July 1936, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

J. Ensor, Liber Veritas, 1929-1941, f.27r.
X. Tricot, James Ensor, Brussels, 2009, no. 684 (the sketch illustrated p. 391).

Exhibited

London, The Leicester Galleries, James Ensor, June - July 1936, no. 66, p. 15.

Special Notice

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