Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, circa 1890 (Les Vingt) | Spencer Museum of Art

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Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, circa 1890 (Les Vingt)

Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, circa 1890 (Les Vingt)

Stephen Goddard, curator

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

The exhibition explores the exhibition society Les Vingt (The Twenty) and their associates as representative of the avant-garde in Belgian art in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Works of art

James Ensor (1860–1949), Christ in Limbo (Les Christ descendant aux enfers [The Descent of Christ into Limbo])

James Ensor (1860–1949), Mon portrait en 1960

James Ensor (1860–1949), Barques Échouées (Boats at Low Tide)

Théophile van Rysselberghe (1862–1926), Vissersboten terugkerend te Volendam (Fishing Boats Returning to Volendam)

Jan Toorop (1858–1928), De Zaaier (The Sower)

Henry van de Velde (1863–1957), Tropon - Eiweiss Nahrung (Tropon, Nourishment from Eggwhite)

James Ensor (1860–1949), La Mort Poursuivant le Troupeau des Humains (Death Pursuing a Flock of Mortals)

Henry de Groux (1867–1930), Scene de L'Ordu Rhin (Mort de Siegfried [The Death of Siegfried])

Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), Mineurs, borinag

Félicien Joseph Victor Rops (1833–1898), La vielle Masken, servente anversoise (The Old Woman)

Xavier Mellery (1845–1921), Bruges

Xavier Mellery (1845–1921), Bruges

Xavier Mellery (1845–1921), Bruges

Alfred William Finch (1854–1930), Couseuse vue de profil gauche (woman sewing seen from the left)

Alfred William Finch (1854–1930), Fiacres en stationnement à la Porte de Namur (Carriages at the Porte de Namur)

Alfred William Finch (1854–1930), Champs (Fields)

Alfred William Finch (1854–1930), Etude de verger (study of an orchard)

M. Octave Maus et. Al, Catalogue de la Ve Exposition des XX avec un Preambule par M. Octave Maus/Bruxelles

Jan Toorop (1858–1928), Scene d'interieur

Henry de Groux (1867–1930), Le Christ aux Outrages (Christ Tormented)

Félicien Joseph Victor Rops (1833–1898), La Chrysalide

Frantz Charlet (1862–1928); Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), Mining Scene (Le Puits, Briqueterie [The Shaft, Brickfields])

James Ensor (1860–1949), The Cathedral (La cathédrale)

Gustave Marissiaux (1872–1929), Le "Terril" (The Slag Heap)

Gustave Marissiaux (1872–1929), Retour au "Coron" (Return to the Miners' Dwellings)

Gustave Marissiaux (1872–1929), Grand Mère (interieur Ardennais)

Max Elskamp (1862–1931), L'Alphabet de Notre-Dame la Vierge (The Alphabet of Our Lady the Virgin)