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).
Royal Museum of Fine Arts,
Antwerp (KMSKA)
from 24th September 2022 |
:
Illustrations
Attributed works:
32. Restored
façade of the
Royal Museum
of Fine Arts,
Antwerp
(KMSKA), 2023.
(Photograph
Karin Borghouts).
Attributed works:
33. Simulation
of how the new
construction
fits in the
patios of the
historic building
of the Royal
Museum of Fine
Arts, Antwerp
(KMSKA). (Kaan
Architecten).
Attributed works:
34. Installation
view of the ‘Light’
gallery at the
Royal Museum
of Fine Arts,
Antwerp (KMSKA),
2023. (Photograph
Karin Borghouts).
Attributed works:
35. Installation
view of the
‘Horizon’ gallery
at the Royal
Museum of Fine
Arts, Antwerp
(KMSKA), 2023.
(Photograph
Karin Borghouts).
Book Review
Rik Wouters: A Retrospective. Edited by Frederik Leen
1. God the Father surrounded b singing and musician angels (central panel), by Hans Memling. 1483–94. Panel, 169.7 by 212.7 cm. (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp).
Attributed works:
2. God the Father surrounded b singing and musician angels (left flanking panel), by Hans Memling. 1483–94. Panel, 170 by 231.5 cm. (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp).
Attributed works:
3. God the Father surrounded b singing and musician angels (right flanking panel), by Hans Memling. 1483–94. Panel, 170 by 231 cm. (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp).
Publication Received
Tiziano: Venezia e il papa Borgia. Edited by Bernard Aikema, with contributions by Bernard Aikema, Paola Artoni, Beverly Louise Brown, Isabella di Lenardo, Hélène Dubois, Peter Lüdemann, Sandra Rossi and Arie Wallert.
49. Virgin and Child and Willem van Bibaut, by the Master of the Magdalen Legend, c.1500 (left), and by an unknown French artist, c.1523 (right). Oak panel with integral frame, 30.4 by 20.7 cm. (left), and walnut panel with integral frame, 20.4 by 14.3 cm. (right). (Private collection; exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
50. Ecce Homo and Mater Dolorosa, by the workshop of Albrecht Bouts. c.1525 (left) and c.1500 (right). Combined in a seventeenth-century(?) frame, with wings in Renaissance style. Both oak panels with the original integral frames inserted into a rectangular secondary frame, 64.5 by 84 cm. (Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen; exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
51. Virgin and Child and Portrait of Philippe de Croÿ, by Rogier van der Weyden. c.1460–65. Masonite (transferred from canvas, originally on panel), 50.8 by 33 cm. (left), and oak panel, 51.5 by 33.6 cm. (right). (Huntington Library, San Marino (left), and Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (right); exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
52. Portrait of Cardinal Erard de la Marck and Holy Family, by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen. c.1528–30. Panel, 63.7 by 54.5 cm (left), and panel, 64.3 by 54.5 cm. (right). (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (left), and Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, on loan from the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, Rijswijk; exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp). Photographs after restoration.
Western art unattributed:
49. Virgin and Child and Willem van Bibaut, by the Master of the Magdalen Legend, c.1500 (left), and by an unknown French artist, c.1523 (right). Oak panel with integral frame, 30.4 by 20.7 cm. (left), and walnut panel with integral frame, 20.4 by 14.3 cm. (right). (Private collection; exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
53. Detail from Au juste pois véritable balance, by the Master of Amiens. 1518. Panel, 173 by 97 cm. (Musée de Picardie, Amiens; exh. Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht).
Attributed works:
54. Adoration of the Magi, by Jan de Beer and workshop (Master of Amiens?). c.1515–18. Central panel, 156 by 123 cm. (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan; exh. Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht).
Attributed works:
55. Adoration of the Magi, by the Master of the Antwerp Adoration. c.1520–30. Central panel, 29 by 22.2 cm. (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp; exh. Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht).
41. Detail of Jean de Froimont, here attributed to an assistant of Rogier van der Weyden. c.1465. Whole panel, 51.1 by 33.2 cm. (Musees royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, Brussels).
Attributed works:
42. Detail of Philippe de Croy, by Rogier van der Weyden. c.1455-60. Whole panel, 49 by 30 cm. (Koninlijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
66. Architectural fantasy, by Hans and Paul Vredeman de Vries and Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn. 1596. 135 by 174 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
67. Design for a marquetry panel, by Hans Vredeman de Vries. c. 1562. Etching, 16.2 by 21.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
Western art unattributed:
68. Buffet cup-board. Antwerp or Zeeland, c. 1600. Oak, veneered with various woods, 174 by 152 by 70 cm. (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).