- Titles Buste (Bust) (Descriptive)
- Artist James Ensor, Belgian, born Ostend 1860 - died 1949, Ostend
- Medium drypoint
- Dimensions sheet: 9 13/16 × 6 5/16 in. (24.9 × 16 cm) plate: 5 1/16 × 3 7/16 in. (12.9 × 8.8 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Roy Curtis Green, AFI.165.2017
- Work Type print
- Classification Prints
- Signature Signed and dated in pencil, below plate right: James Ensor 1887
- Marks Collector's stamp, verso, lower right, in black ink: T [inside circle]
- Inscription Recto, below image left, in pencil, artist's hand: Buste, pointe sèche Bottom right corner, in pencil, artist's hand?: 18 Verso, center plate, in pencil: [scribbled marking] Lower center, in pencil: Buste 1887 printe sèche Bottom right corner, in pencil: 12 [underlined] 18 [oriented sideways]
- Provenance Dr. Frédéric Trüssel (1873-1965), Berne [see note 1]; his sale, Die Ensor-Sammung Dr. Trüssel, Bern, Galerie Koller, Zurich, November 7, 1974, lot. 2891. Dealer Galerie Koller, Zurich, March 22, 2013, lot. 3640. Dealer C. G. Boerner; purchased by Roy C. Green, 2015; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2017
1. Collector's stamp on verso, not in Lugt.