Ensor work fetches €88,000

A  collection of works by Ostend artist James Ensor was auctioned at the weekend by a Bruges art dealer, including a still life which fetched €88,000, reports Flanders News. The collection featured books and catalogues, but also many original works, letters, posters, a photo and an oil painting called Chinoiseries dating from 1915-19. Antiques dealer Marc Van de Wiele told Belga that the buyer would pay €112,640 including costs. The sale also included prints and manuscripts by artists Frans Masereel and Jules De Bruycker, as well as drawings by Constant Permeke, George Minne, Frits Van den Berghe and Emile Claus. The oldest pamphlet in the sale was a collection of descriptions of plants put together for medicinal purposes, which was printed in Leuven in 1486, and fetched €32,000.