James Ensor
(1860 - 1949)
The old rascals
1895
Copper plate etching in black on simili-Japan paper, bevelled
Plate: 10.1 x 13.8 cm
Sheet: 23.4 x 28.9 cm
Signed and dated lower right in the margin in pencil: James Ensor 1895
Copper plate etching in black on simili-Japan paper, bevelled
Plate: 10.1 x 13.8 cm
Sheet: 23.4 x 28.9 cm
Signed and dated lower right in the margin in pencil: James Ensor 1895
Signed in pencil on reverse: Ensor
Four old gentlemen judge three naked girls under a woman's eye while a skeleton watches. Ensor openly pokes fun at the hypocrisy of contemporary bourgeois morality here.
Four old gentlemen judge three naked girls under a woman's eye while a skeleton watches. Ensor openly pokes fun at the hypocrisy of contemporary bourgeois morality here.
- Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus, inv. no. PK.MP.04935.
- Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, inv.no. 1998-B 146.
- New York, MoMa, inv. no. 613.1956.
- Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, inv.no. 1998-B 146.
- New York, MoMa, inv. no. 613.1956.
- Delteil, L., Le Peintre graveur illustré : H. Les, H. de Braekeleer, J. Ensor, vol. XIX (Paris: 1925), no. 101 (ill.).
- Croquez, A., L'Œuvre gravé de James Ensor - Catalogue raisonné (Paris: Maurice Le Garrec, 1935), no. 102 (ill.).
- Taevenier, A., Graphic works of James Ensor. Illustrated catalogue of his engravings their critical description and inventary of the plates (Ghent: Erasmus Ledeberg, 1973), no. 101 (ill.).
- Elesh, J.N., James Ensor The Complete Graphic Work (The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 141) (New York: Abaris Books, 1982), no. 104 (ill.).
- Tricot, X., James Ensor. The Complete Prints (Roeselaere: Defiac, 2010), 181, 293, no. 94b (ill.).
- Alechinsky, P., G. Ollinger-Zinque, R. Rosenblum e.a., Ensor, exh. cat. (Wommelgem: Blondé, 1999), 318, no. 343 (ill.).
- Becker, J. et.al., James Ensor. Visionär der Moderne. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und das druckgraphische Werk aus der Sammlung Gerard Loobuyck (Albstadt: Galerie Albstadt, 1999), 110 (ill.).
- Croquez, A., L'Œuvre gravé de James Ensor - Catalogue raisonné (Paris: Maurice Le Garrec, 1935), no. 102 (ill.).
- Taevenier, A., Graphic works of James Ensor. Illustrated catalogue of his engravings their critical description and inventary of the plates (Ghent: Erasmus Ledeberg, 1973), no. 101 (ill.).
- Elesh, J.N., James Ensor The Complete Graphic Work (The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 141) (New York: Abaris Books, 1982), no. 104 (ill.).
- Tricot, X., James Ensor. The Complete Prints (Roeselaere: Defiac, 2010), 181, 293, no. 94b (ill.).
- Alechinsky, P., G. Ollinger-Zinque, R. Rosenblum e.a., Ensor, exh. cat. (Wommelgem: Blondé, 1999), 318, no. 343 (ill.).
- Becker, J. et.al., James Ensor. Visionär der Moderne. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und das druckgraphische Werk aus der Sammlung Gerard Loobuyck (Albstadt: Galerie Albstadt, 1999), 110 (ill.).
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(1860 - 1949)
The old rascals
