Chicago and LA Museums to Display James Ensor’s Monumental Drawings
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Carol Vogel
CALIFORNIA---James Ensor, the late-19th-century Belgian painter who helped shape Modernism, was an interpreter of a vast array of sources, from traditional masters like Bosch and Breughel to Courbet and Manet. Among his most prized works are the large-scale drawings made from pasted-together sheets of paper. One in particular, “The Temptation of Saint Anthony,” dating from the 1880s, is almost six feet tall and composed of 51 separate sheets of paper mounted on canvas. Starting this spring, it will be on view first at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, from June 10 through Sept. 7, and later at the Art Institute of Chicago, from Nov. 23 through Jan. 25, 2015. It will be its first public showing in more than 60 years. [link]
The Getty Center of Los Angeles: "The Scandalous Art of James Ensor" (June 10–August 31, 2014); 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles; getty.edu
Art Institute of Chicago: "Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor" (November 23, 2014–January 25, 2015); 1100 South Michigan Ave & E Adams St, Chicago, Cook, Illinois; (877) 307-4242; artic.edu
By Carol Vogel
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| “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” from (1887) by James Ensor |
The Getty Center of Los Angeles: "The Scandalous Art of James Ensor" (June 10–August 31, 2014); 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles; getty.edu
Art Institute of Chicago: "Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor" (November 23, 2014–January 25, 2015); 1100 South Michigan Ave & E Adams St, Chicago, Cook, Illinois; (877) 307-4242; artic.edu