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James Ensor

478 works

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Ink sketch of a rearing horse above a fallen rider on the ground, drawn in loose black strokes on grey paper.

Fallen Arab rider with rearing horse

Pencil sketch of a flying duck above a loosely drawn vase of flowers on pale paper.

Vase and flying duck

Pencil sketch of a fringed table with lion-head forms, a raised hand and loose drapery sketched above on pale paper.

Table with lion heads

Graphite sketch of a bearded man smoking a pipe, with small figure studies, a jacket outline and a sailboat on a study sheet.

Theo Hannon with pipe

1880

Hands

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a plumed hat and fitted jacket, with a small study of two figures at upper right.

Madam Gratiot

1880

Pencil sketch of a hooded older man with a cloak and downturned expression, drawn in loose contour lines.

Copy after Goya

Pencil sketch of rooftops and a church spire with a cross, drawn by James Ensor in 1880, showing a town view.

Van Izegemlaan in Ostend

1880

Stairs, man, foliage (detail)

Charcoal drawing of a crowded interior with a framed portrait of a woman, decorative plates, and a seated elderly man in the

The artist's aunt

1886

Charcoal sketch of an interior with dark drapery and shadowy figures on grey paper, attributed to James Ensor.

Flowers in a Vase

Woman reading

Pencil sketch of three nude women wrestling on open ground, with arms locked and hair flowing.

Of Spartan girls wrestling

Pencil sketch of an interior with a seated woman at a table, a man perched on a ledge, and exposed roof beams.

Couple in interior

Charcoal portrait of a bearded, balding man in a dark collar, with handwritten name Emile Augier at upper right.

The Playwright Emile Augier

Charcoal drawing of a stooped old woman in a dark cloak beside a wooden chest, with smoke rising above.

Chinoiserie, an old woman

Pencil sketch of a sailboat with a billowing sail beside rocks and a pier at sunrise, with radiating light in the sky.

Sunrise

1880

Woman's head and small figures

Ink sketch of a seated woman in a hat beside a vase, with a standing woman at the right in an interior.

Two Women

Charcoal sketch of a dense crowd of soldiers and top-hatted citizens packed together in a street scene.

Group of soldiers and citizens

Ink and wash drawing of a stork preening its wing, with a second bird sketched at the right edge.

Chinoiserie, a stork

Loose pencil sketch of a seated woman in a hat bent over needlework at a table, by James Ensor.

Woman with needlework

1880

Graphite drawing of a reclining woman with closed eyes and folded hands holding a cross, on grey paper.

My dead mother

1915

Masquerade ball at the Monnaie

Woman's head

Pencil and crayon drawing of a seaside bench with seated figures beneath a grotesque sun face and clouds.

Plague here, Plague there, Plague everywhere

1888

My dead mother II

1915

Pencil sketch of a stone staircase and scaffolding with loosely drawn figures gathered in the lower half of the page.

Spiral staircase and figures

Pencil sketch of two cats and a latticed arched window on pale paper, with faint studies of a cat near the sill.

Cats and window

1873

Pencil sketch of a group of figures in an arched interior, drawn loosely on pale paper.

Genre scene

Charcoal sketch of a cloaked man raising one arm in a dynamic crouched pose, with loose hatched shading.

Don Quixote

Pencil sketch of a dark garment sleeve with hatched shadows and a pale cuff, drawn on grey paper.

Regents of the Old Men's House in Haarlem. Sleeve of a regentess

1880