James Ensor (1860-1949). 'XXXI. La Vierge adoree par les Anges', 1921. Stone signed color lithograph printed by Goossens, Brussels, on Holland Van Gelder paper, and published by Giroux, Brussels, from an edition of 250. Framed. 165x220mm. Acquired privately from Mappamundi, Knokke (certificate 1555).

'Scenes de la vie du Christ', a portfolio of thirty-two lithographs executed after drawings in coloured pencil James Ensor made around 1912/1913, was published in the form of an album by Georges Giroux, Brussels. Considered as perhaps his most all-encompassing graphic project, the portfolio is inspired by the late-medieval combination of religious themes and carnival humor. Like so many of his works, it contrasts beauty with monsterly figures and delicate rendering with bold and bizarre passages.