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James Ensor

[Belgian Expressionist Painter, 1860-1949]

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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
17 works by James Ensor online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 works by James Ensor

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  
Hundreds of works viewable online

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Still Life With Vase Of Flowers, ca.1917-25

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, 1885
Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889, 1888

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
4 works

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris   NEW!
La dame en détresse, 1882

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
5 works by James Ensor online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Death Chasing the Rock of Mortals, 1896
(In the "Etching" section)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Many works online

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Death pursuing the human flock, 1896

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
Seascape, 1881
The Finding of Moses, 1924

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
The Virgin and the Mondaine, ca.1933

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Le Diable au Moulin

Flemish Art Collection
The Intrigue, 1890

Flemish Art Collection
Old Lady with Masks, 1889

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Skeletons Warming Themselves

Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium (in Dutch)  

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
2 images online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
Tribulations of St. Anthony [Les tribulations de St. Antoine], 1887
Masks Confronting Death [Masques devant la mort], 1888

Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Entry of Christ into Brussels

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
My Favourite Room, 1892

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)   NEW!  
Skelett, Chinoiserien betrachtend, 1885

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Pictures from Image Archives:
James Ensor at Insecula

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Boston College Fine Arts Department

California State University WorldImages Database

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)

James Ensor at The Athenaeum
2 works online

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

 
Other Web Sites:
ArtsNet Minnesota

Belgian Art Research Institute (in French)  
Biography and sample artworks

James Ensor Archief, Belgium
Information about this group that centralizes the study of Ensor. No images that I could find.

Kilidavid

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on James Ensor
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Frieze Magazine   NEW!
Review (from issue 38): James Ensor

International Herald Tribune
"The Strange Case of James Ensor," article by Souren Melikian

The Art Journal
James Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Macabre Belgian Ensor Painted Self as Beetle

Time Magazine
"Ensor: Much Possessed by Death", 1977 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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