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Exhibition Review
In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism and Ensor’s States of Imagination
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 51-4
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Joe (Lloyd, Joe)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium / Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
subjects:
Belgian painting / Prints
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ensor’s States of Imagination Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp 28th September 2024–19th January 2025 | :
subjects:
In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp 28th September 2024–19th January 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Self-portrait with flowered hat, by James Ensor. 1888. Oil on canvas, 76.5 by 61.5 cm. (Mu. ZEE, Ostend; exh. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
23. Temptation of St Anthony, by James Ensor. 1887. Coloured pencil and scraping, graphite, charcoal, crayon, coloured chalk and watercolour with cut and pasted elements on fifty-one sheets of paper laid on canvas, 179.5 by 154.7 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; exh. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
24. Pride from the series Seven deadly sins, by James Ensor. 1904. Coloured etching on paper, 9.3 by 14.6 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent; exh. Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp).
Book Review
Luc Tuymans Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings: Volume I, 1972–1994. Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 885-886
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Reviewer:
Falconer, Morgan (Falconer, Morgan)
Subjects
artists:
Tuymans, Luc / Richter, Gerhard / Clemente, Francesco / Schnabel, Julian / Salle, David / Ensor, James / El Greco
dates:
1950-1999 / 1970-1979 / 1980-1989 / 1990-1999
media:
Paintings
places:
Belgium
subjects:
Belgian painting / Modernism / Neo-Expressionist / Figure paintings / Portraits / Style / Politics / Influence / Catalogues raisonnés
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Needles, by Luc Tuymans. 1972. Canvas, 151 by 100 cm. (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa).
Book Review
Rik Wouters: A Retrospective. Edited by Frederik Leen
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 803-804
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Reviewer:
Adams, Alexander (Adams, Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Wouters, Rik / Ensor, James
collectors and dealers:
Giroux, Georges
dates:
1880-1889 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Sculpture / Paintings / Prints / Pastels / Etchings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium / Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
places:
Belgium / Brussels / Antwerp
subjects:
Belgian sculpture / Belgian painting / Exhibition catalogues / Busts / Portraits / Nudes / Sitters / Self-portraits / Still lifes / Landscapes (visual works) / Fauvism / World War (1914-1918)
Exhibition Review
James Ensor and Luc Tuymans. London
02/2017 | 1367 | 159
Pages: 147-148
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Reviewer:
Hyman, Timothy (Hyman, Timothy)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James / Tuymans, Luc
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
71. The intrigue, by James Ensor. 1890 (Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Attributed works:
72. Peculiar insects, by James Ensor. 1888 (Patrick Florizoone, Ghent; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Attributed works:
73. Skeletons fighting for the body of a hanged man, by James Ensor. 1891 (Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Book Review
James Ensor. The complete paintings
02/2010 | 1283 | 152
Pages: 112-113
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Reviewer:
Florizoone, Patrick (Florizoone, Patrick)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
1870-1909 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
print:
Ensor, James
subjects:
Belgian painting / Prints / Artists' writings / Interviews / Correspondence / Catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
James Ensor. The complete paintings | author: Tricot, Xavier
Exhibition Review
James Ensor. Brussels
12/1999 | 1161 | 141
Pages: 765-767
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Jill (J. L.) (Lloyd, Jill (J. L.); L., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
places:
Belgium / Brussels
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
65. Skeletons Trying to Warm Themselves, by James Ensor. 1889. 75 by 60 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Exh. Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels).
Attributed works:
66. Scandalised Masks, by James Ensor. 1883. 135 by 112 cm. (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels).
Attributed works:
67. Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man, by James Ensor. 1891. 59 by 74 cm. (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp; Exh. Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels).
Attributed works:
68. Carnival on the Beach, by James Ensor. 1887. 54.5 by 69.5 cm. (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels).
Attributed works:
69. My Skeletonised Portrait, by James Ensor. 1889. Etching, 11.6 by 7.5 cm. (Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent; Exh. Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels).
Exhibition Review
James Ensor. London
12/1997 | 1137 | 139
Pages: 888-889
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Reviewer:
McConkey, Kenneth (McConkey, Kenneth)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
61. Me and My Circle, by James Ensor. 1939. Panel, 30 by 24 cm. (Private Collection; Exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
62. Doctrinal Nourishment, by James Ensor. 1889. Etching, Second State, 17.6 by 24.5 cm. (Geert Behaegel Collection; Exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
63. Death and the Masks, by James Ensor. 1897. 78.5 by 100 cm. (Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain, Liège; Exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Publication Received
From Ensor to Magritte, Belgian Art 1880-1940
03/1996 | 1116 | 138
Pages: 205
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Reviewer:
McConkey, Kenneth (McConkey, Kenneth)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
artists:
Magritte, René
dates:
1880-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939
places:
Belgium
subjects:
Belgian / Paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
From Ensor to Magritte, Belgian Art 1880-1940 | author: Palmer, Michael
Book Review
Ensor, la mort et le charme
04/1995 | 1105 | 137
Pages: 256-257
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Reviewer:
Hoffmann, Edith (E. H.) (Hoffmann, Edith (E. H.); H., E.)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
1850-1949
places:
Belgium
subjects:
Belgian painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ensor, la mort et le charme | author: Legrand, Francine-Claire
Exhibition Review
I, James Ensor (1860-1949). Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
10/1987 | 1015 | 129
Pages: 691
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Reviewer:
Sillevis, John (Sillevis, John)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
places:
Netherlands / Amsterdam
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
27. Poster for His First Paris Exhibition, by James Ensor. 1898/99. Lithograph. (Exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
28. Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, by James Ensor. 1885. Black and Brown Chalk, Collage, 206 by 150 cm. (Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent; Exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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