Los Caprichos: Se Repulen

Prints and Drawings

c. 1885

James Ensor (Belgian, 1860-1949)
after Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Ensor
Title: Los Caprichos: Se Repulen
Origin: Belgium
Date: 1880–1890
Medium: Black Conté crayon on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
Dimensions: 157 × 226 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1965.1184
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

London, Marlborough Fine Art Limited, “James Ensor 1860-1949: A Retrospective,” April-May 1960, cat. 89, as Personnages de Goya.
New York, The Drawing Center, “Creative Copies: Master Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso,” April 9-July 23, 1988.
Lawrence, Kans., Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, “The Graphic Art of Les XX and The Belgian Avant-Garde, 1880-1990,” January 24-March 21, 1993; traveled to Williamstown, Mass., The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, April 17-June 13, 1993; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, July 13-September 5, 1993.
France, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, “Hommage à Goya,” March 6-May 6, 1998.
Antwerp, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, “Goya, Redon, Ensor: Grotesque Paintings and Drawings,” 3/14/09–6/14/09, p.95, cat. by Herwig Todts
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor”, November 23, 2014 - January 25, 2015.

Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London, by 1960 [London 1960]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1965.

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