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Original works by James Ensor available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Detailed information about the artist and his works
James Ensor at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 works by James Ensor
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Still Life With Vase Of Flowers, ca.1917-25
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) NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
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
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
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 NEW!
Vierge et mondaine (Virgin and mondaine)
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Le Diable au Moulin
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Skeletons Warming Themselves
Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
The Intrigue
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
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
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
My Favourite Room, 1892
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City NEW!
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
Pictures from Image Archives:
James Ensor at The Athenaeum
3 works online
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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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
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University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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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 and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on James Ensor 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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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Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor
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