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James Ensor

Fantastic Musicians

1887

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James Ensor

Fantastic Musicians

1887

Physical Qualities Etching with bitten and printed tone, Sheet: 495 x 400 mm. (19 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) Plate: 178 x 241 mm. (7 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1971.17.3
Oliver Shell, BMA, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger," 22 February through 17 May 2009.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: in plate, at lower left: "Ensor"; at lower right, in graphite: "James Ensor. 1888"; Verso: at center, in graphite: [indecipherable]; at lower left, in graphite: "Les musiciens singuliers"; at bottom left, in graphite: "34"

Markings: None

Artist

James Ensor

1859–1948

Belgian, 1860-1949
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