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Self-Portrait

A work made of charcoal with graphite and touches of black conté crayon on ivory wove paper.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

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  • A work made of charcoal with graphite and touches of black conté crayon on ivory wove paper.

Date:

1878

Artist:

James Ensor
Belgian, 1860-1949

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

James Ensor

Title

Self-Portrait

Place

Belgium (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1878–1949

Medium

Charcoal with graphite and touches of black Conté crayon on ivory wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in image, in black pencil: "Mon Portrait / James Ensor 1878"

Dimensions

21.7 × 16.9 cm (8 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf

Reference Number

1965.1183

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

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