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James Ensor Works Online
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Original works by James Ensor available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
James Ensor at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Le Ballet Faerique (Le Jardin d'Amour), ca.1925/30
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, 1885 Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889, 1888
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Artworks in the museum's collections database
Musée d'Orsay, Paris "Works in focus:" At the Conservatory
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Death Chasing the Rock of Mortals, 1896 (In the "Etching" section)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French) Many works online
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Death pursuing the human flock
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana Scenes of the Life of Christ, 1921
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California Seascape, 1881 The Finding of Moses, 1924
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain Vierge et mondaine (Virgin and mondaine)
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Le Diable au Moulin
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium The Intrigue
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 6 works
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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Portrait of the Artist's Mother, ca.1881
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German) The Cathedral
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German) Still Life with Blue Pitcher
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City Les Pattineurs (The Skaters)
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) Skelett, Chinoiserien betrachtend, 1885
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium The Intrigue, 1890
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium Old Lady with Masks, 1889
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) Hundreds of works viewable online
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
James Ensor at The Athenaeum 3 works online
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
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 (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous 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's work
Kilidavid
Articles and Reference Sites:
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
Art + Auction Magazine Artist Dossier -- "The Belgian painter's allegorical aesthetic was ahead of the curve. Today, if his new auction record and MoMA show are any indication, it's utterly au courant."
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 38): James Ensor
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization) "The Strange Case of James Ensor," article by Souren Melikian
New York Magazine "Teeing Up the Twentieth Century", 2009 article by Jerry Saltz
The New York Observer "Macabre Belgian Ensor Painted Self as Beetle", article by Hilton Kramer
The Village Voice "Drawn and Quartered", 2001 article by Jerry Saltz
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor
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