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Art

September 2009

James Ensor at MOMA

by Karen Wilkin

On "James Ensor" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

James Ensor, The Skeleton Painter (1895 or 1896), Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

 

I have to admit that the Belgian painter James Ensor has never ranked very high among the modern artists I find most compelling nor occupied a conspicuous place in my mental image bank. I don’t suppose I have a really firm grip on more than a handful of his paintings, chiefly his best known work, the enormous Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888, J ...

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Karen Wilkin is on the faculty at the New York Studio School. 


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 September 2009, on page 40

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