Mon portrait en 1960, James Ensor

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James Ensor, Mon portrait en 1960
James Ensor, Mon portrait en 1960
James Ensor
Mon portrait en 1960
1888
James Ensor
1860–1949
Mon portrait en 1960, 1888
Where object was made: Belgium
Material/technique: Japanese paper; etching
Dimensions:
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 64 x 113 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 207 x 266 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 2 1/2 x 4 7/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 8 1/8 x 10 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Anonymous gift
Accession number: 1970.0037
Not on display
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Label texts

Archive Label 2003: James Ensor was a painter and printmaker known for his satirical, and often apocalyptic, depictions of humanity. Ensor extended his use of humor into the tradition of self-portraiture by projecting how he might look at the age of 100. Portraits, like other images, are also a symbolic rejection of mortality and a desire to leave behind something which, as Ensor’s skeleton suggests, will survive after the artist is gone.

Exhibitions

Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, circa 1890 (Les Vingt)
Stephen Goddard, curator
1993
Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, circa 1890 (Les Vingt)
Stephen Goddard, curator
1993
Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, circa 1890 (Les Vingt)
Stephen Goddard, curator
1993
Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, circa 1890 (Les Vingt and the Belgian ... )
Stephen Goddard, curator
1993
Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art
1973

Citations

Lang, Karen. Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006

Matthew Day Jackson In Search of .... Bologna, Italy: Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2011.

Eldredge, Charles C. Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art. Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1973.

Goddard, Stephen, ed. Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books ca. 1890. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 1992.