James Ensor
1860 (Ostende) / 1949 (Ostende)
"We like simplifications: James Ensor is the painter of masks. This is true, of course, but he is also a prince of painting, then an unclassifiable artist whose very original conceptions include drawing - some of his major works such as "The Aureoles of Christ" or "The sensitivities of light" are drawings - and engraving, both of which are part of the same pictorial approach based on a poetics of light."
Manuel Jover, Art Absolument n°32, November/December 2009
"We like simplifications: James Ensor is the painter of masks. This is true, of course, but he is also a prince of painting, then an unclassifiable artist whose very original conceptions include drawing - some of his major works such as "The Aureoles of Christ" or "The sensitivities of light" are drawings - and engraving, both of which are part of the same pictorial approach based on a poetics of light."
Manuel Jover, Art Absolument n°32, November/December 2009
Artist's exhibitions
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Ensor, Magritte, Alechinsky… Chefs-d’œuvre du Musée d’Ixelles
28/09/2019 - 23/02/2020(Lodève) Musée de Lodève
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Grenoble 1927 : un panorama de l’art belge
29/01/2012 - 27/05/2012(Drogenbos) FeliXart Museum
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Ensor Démasqué
07/10/2010 - 13/02/2011(Brussels) Espace culturel ING
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