Masks and Grotesque Figures

Prints and Drawings

1885

James Ensor
Belgian, 1860-1949

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Ensor
Title: Masks and Grotesque Figures
Origin: Belgium
Date: 1885
Medium: Black Conté crayon on grayish cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in image, in black pencil: "Ensor;" in graphite: "masques et marmousets . . . 1885"
Dimensions: 218 × 298 mm
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1950.1512
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

Grégoire la Roy, James Ensor (Brussels, 1922), p. 179.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “James Ensor,” January 27-April 10, 1977, cat. 68, cat. by John D. Farmer; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, November 6, 1976-January 2, 1977.
Kunsthaus Zurich, “James Ensor,” May 20-July 31, 1983; traveled to Antwerp, The Netherlands, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, August 20-October 30, 1983.
Bordeaux, France, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, “Hommage Á 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.84, cat. by Herwig Todts
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor”, November 23, 2014 - January 25, 2015. Also exhibited Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, June 10 - September 7, 2014.

Sold by the Buchholz Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1950.

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