La Mare aux Peupliers

Etching on copper plate,1889, hand-signed and dated in pencil on lower-right margin. Unique state.

Beautiful proof representing a natural landscape. Grégoire Le Roy has a title: " The Poplars".

References:  Delteil, Taevernier Pl. 74, pag. 189

Good conditions, small stain lower right.

James Ensor (Belgium, 1860-1949,)

A forerunner of 20th-century Expressionism and one of the major figures of the Belgian avant-garde in the late 19th century, James Ensor was a visionary, mystic, allegoric, anarchic artist that loved exploring religious subject matter, political satire, and carnivalesque imagery (surely a source of his inspiration derives from his family’s souvenir emporium that sold grotesque carnival masks). Harsh colors and thick layers distinguish his style. His masterpiece is Christ’s Entry into Brussels  (1889), a satiric artwork set in contemporary Belgium and incorporated his trademark style. A very prolific artist produced more than 900 moil paintings, 4000 drawings and 133 etchings, he was a misunderstood genius, admired by artists like Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner .  He was a founder and leader of  Les Vingt  (The Twenty), a group whose goal was to promote new artistic developments in Europe.