(FR) Détail - Portrait d’Ernest Rousseau, 1887.
James Ensor - Biography
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism andsurrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
Ensor is considered to be an innovator in 19th-century art. Although he stood apart from other artists of his time, he significantly influenced such 20th-century artists as Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, George Grosz, Alfred Kubin, Wols, Felix Nussbaum, and other expressionist and surrealist painters of the 20th century.
As Los Angeles County Museum of Art CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan has explained: "James Ensor's signature style – his radical distortion of form, his ambiguous space, his riotous color, his muddled surfaces, and his proclivity for the bizarre – both anticipated and influenced modernist movements from symbolism and expressionism to dada and surrealism."
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Pencil on paper
Dim.: 12,8 x 19,3 cm
Signed lower right
Provenance: Private collection Belgium
Eau-forte.
Dim.: 240 x 180 mm.
Signed and dated in pencil.
Lit.: A. Taevernier n° 3, 2me état.
Cette parodie illustre les problèmes qu’Ensor rencontrait dans la confrontation de son oeuvre avec les critiques, qui comme, c’est le cas avec les selles de Darius, inspectent et commentent le fruit de son imagination.
Ensor a executé cette eau-forte, pour laquelle il avait une predilection marquée, à la manière de Rembrandt.
Etching in black. Dim.: 23,7 x 17,8 cm.
Titled, signed and dated in pencil.
Large paraph in pencil on the reverse.
Lit.: A. Taevernier n°6.
Ernest Rousseau, professeur à l’université libre de Bruxelles fut recteur de 1884 à 1886.
Pointe-sèche.
Dim.: 22,8 x 16,8 cm.
Titled, signed and dated in pencil.
Large paraph in pencil on the reverse.
Lit.: A. Taevernier n° 11.
Pointe – sèche.
Dim.: 130 x 89 mm.
Signed and dated in pencil.
Large paraph and title in pencil on the reverse.
Lit.: A. Taevernier n° 18.
Gravure à la pointe-sèche.
Hand-coloured with watercolour and coloured pencils or chalk.
Signed and dated 1888 in pencil.
Large paraph and title in pencil on the reverse.
Dim.: 13,5 x 9 cm.
Lit.: A. Taevernier n° 20.
Gravure à la pointe sèche.
Signed, titled in pencil.
Large paraph and title in pencil on the reverse.
Dim.: 133 x 93 mm.
Lit.: A. Taevernier n° 26.