Live auction - Lot 296
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of Ensor's death
L'assassinat.
1888
Hammer price: €
3.000
€ 2.500 / 3.000
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Etching, 17,7 x 23,8 cm, Japan paper, plate signed, pencil signed and dated, pencil signed on the whole verso of the print (prickholes in upper corners, marg. creases).
Label "456" attached from an old large collection. Rare print from a zinc plate, from which less impressions can be printed.
Four men in large feathered hats holding down a man and slitting his throat.
Ref. Taevernier 38. – Tricot 48.