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08 May 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) -
26, rue du Château - 29200 Brest
Belgian artist James Ensor possessed a precocious and dazzling genius. This seascape, painted when he was only 20, illustrates both his sources of inspiration and his artistic ambitions.
James Ensor (1860-1949), Bateaux échoués (Grounded Boats), 1880, canvas, 163 x 153 cm/64.2 x 60.2 in (detail). Estimate: €60,000/80,000
James Ensor (1860-1949), Bateaux échoués (Grounded Boats), 1880, canvas, 163 x 153 cm/64.2 x 60.2 in (detail). Estimate: €60,000/80,000
While the name of James Ensor (1860-1949) inevitably conjures up the souvenir and curiosity store run by his mother, presented as the place where the young boy's imagination developed, another, far vaster world also played its part: the sea. Ensor was born in Ostend, Belgium , in 1860. This fishing town became well-known when the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I (r. 1658-1705) made it his summer residence, and by the end of the 19 th century was a popular…
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