Live auction - Lot 526
Lot description
Etching, 16 x 21 cm, Japan paper, signed in plate on the window shop. Numb. 4/52 lower right, stamp (mask) lower left (traces of sticky paper around the engr.).
Pasted by upper edge under passe-partout.
From the "Album Stols": in 1927, Nel Wouters, realising that few copies of her husband's work existed, decided to make posthumous prints using the coppers plates she possessed. Fifty-two albums with 30 engravings on Japan paper were published, all with a stamp with Nel's face (called "stamp with the mask"). No states known.
Ref. Vanruysseveldt 24 and p. 20.
Prov. Doctor Victor Conrad, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, collector of romantic, modern and Japanese prints (not in Lugt).