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Belgian- painter, drawer, etcher, writer, composer and musician: Date of birth/death: 13 April 1860 : 19 November 1949 : Location of birth/death: Ostend : Ostend : Work period: between circa 1876 and circa 1949
Masks Confronting Death: oil on canvas: 81.3 x 100.3: 1888: Museum of Modern Art, New York [20] Astonishment of the Wouze Mask: oil on canvas: 109 x 131.5: 1889: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp [21] Fall of the Rebel Angels: oil on canvas: 108 x 132: 1889: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp: Skeletons Warming Themselves: oil on canvas: 74.8 x ...
Ensor in front of "Entry of Christ into Brussels" in his house in Ostend, 1940s, photo by Albert Lilar. James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) [1] was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life.
The work depicts an on-stage drama in which two skeletons dressed in masks and women's clothing are fighting with traditional female weapons such as brooms and umbrellas. Behind them hangs a dead body described as "civet", the French description for a hare stew. In both wings extras wearing masks and carrying knives are watching the fight.
Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 (French: L'Entrée du Christ à Bruxelles, "Entry of Christ into Brussels") is an 1888 painting by the Belgian artist James Ensor.The post-Impressionist work, parodying Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem celebrated on Palm Sunday, is considered Ensor's most famous composition and a precursor to Expressionism.
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Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (Dutch: Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret) is an early work by Vincent van Gogh.The small and undated oil-on-canvas painting featuring a skeleton and cigarette is part of the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. [1]
X-Ray images then led to the discovery that a second canvas of the same format with another painting of Munch was underneath the painting Death and the Child. This piece of art is unsigned and undated, [ 3 ] is from a time around 1895 to 1898 and shows a daintily seated act of a girl next to several big, brightly coloured mask-like heads and ...