James Ensor (1860-1940)

Masques et poupées

細節

James Ensor (1860-1940)
Masques et poupées
signed 'ENSOR' (lower right), signed again (on the reverse) and titled 'Masques et poupées' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
19¾ x 23 5/8in. (50.1 x 60cm.)
Painted in 1936

來源

Henri Serruys, Ostend.

出版

X. Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, vol. II 1902-1941, London, 1992, no.682 (illustrated p.605).

展覽

Ostend, Galerie Studio, Ensor, Aug. 1945, no.20.
Ostend, Stedelijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ensor in Oostende verzamelingen, April-Aug. 1985, no.34.

拍品專文

Ensor's father was a British engineer who came to Ostend on a tourist's whim. He married a Flemish girl, Maria Catharina Haegheman. It was Catharina's souvenir and 'curiosité' shop in which she sold Far Eastern objects and Flemish carnival masks, that kept the family going after the death of Ensor's father. The masks were later to haunt the artist and served as an important source of inspiration for his unique brand of Expressionism.