Photo © DuMouchelles — view this lot on DuMouchelles ↗Feeding of the Five Thousand (La Multiplication Des Poissons), circa 1891
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Auction result
La cathédrale
James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949) · 1886
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate CHF 9,000 (≈ $11,253) (≈ £8,327) (≈ €9,630)
Offered at Kornfeld and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Etching · Prints & multiples all etching results →As published: “Etching on imitation Japan paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated by the artist in pencil
- Category
- Etchings
- Dimensions
- 24.6 x 19.1 cm, plate mark; 35.6 x 25.8 cm, sheet size
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 287: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries - Live Auction (287)
- Date
- September 11, 2025
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 275
- Estimate
- CHF 9,000 – — (≈ $11,253) (≈ £8,327) (≈ €9,630)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 28, 2026
Provenance (3)
- The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse , Lugt 913b
- Exhibition
- Salzburg/Winterthur 1984/1985, Rupertinum/Kunstmuseum, Von Goya bis Warhol, Meisterwerke der Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts aus einer Schweizer Privatsammlung [The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection], cat. no. 120
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: Taevernier 7/II (of III)
As published by Kornfeld.
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