Scandalized Masks

1883

James Ensor
Belgian, 1860-1949

Status: On View, Gallery 125
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Ensor
Title: Scandalized Masks
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.: 1883
Medium: Black chalk and black Conté crayon, with graphite, on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed and signed recto, lower right, in graphite: “Les masques scandalizes / Ensor 1883” verso, in graphite: “Masques scandalizes”
Dimensions: 74.5 × 58.8 cm (29 3/8 × 23 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Partial and promised gift of Celia and David Hilliard
Reference Number: 2002.672
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

Emilie Verharen, James Ensor (G. van Oest, 1908), p.112.
Grégoire Le Roy, James Ensor (G. van Oest, 1922), p. 178.
Robert Delavoy, Ensor (Mercatorfonds, 1981), p.124, no.85.
Diane Lesko, James Ensor: The Creative Years (Princeton University Press, 1985), pp. 22–24.
Robert Hoozee, S. Bown-Tavernier, J.F. Heijbroek, James Ensor: Dessins et estampes (Fonds Mercator, 1987), p. 49, no. 5 (ill.).

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, James Ensor, 1929, cat. 42.
Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Hommage à James Ensor, 1945, cat. 152.
Basel, Kunsthalle, James Ensor, 1963, cat. 97; also, Muenster, Landesmuseum.
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, L’art flamand d’Ensor à Permeke, 1970, cat. 74, fig. 48.
Ghent, Museum voor Schoone, Ik James Ensor, 1987, p. 24, cat. 3 (ill); also Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet.
Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, James Ensor, 1990, cat. 71 (ill).
Brussels, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, James Ensor, 1999, cat. 219 (ill).
London, Faggionato Fine Arts, James Ensor: Drawings 1883–1893, Dec. 4, 2000–Feb. 14, 2001.
New York, The Drawing Centre, Between Street and Mirror: The Drawing of James Ensor, Apr. 27–July 21, 2001, cat. 18 (ill).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, Oct. 20, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, pp. 20, 154–56, 159, 228–29, cat. 66 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Temptation!: The Demons of James Ensor, Nov. 23, 2014–Jan. 25, 2015; also Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, June 10–Sept. 7, 2014.

F. (likely François) Van Haelen, Brussels, by 1922–at least 1929 [Le Roy, 1922; Brussels 1929]. J. Van Weyenberg, Quaregnon [according to Ghent 1987]. Marcel Mabille, Brussels, by 1963–at least 1990 [Basel 1963; Paris shipping label and Paris 1990]. Faggionato Fine Arts, London, by Dec. 2000– at least July 2001 [London 2000; New York 2001]. Sold, Richard Nagy Ltd., London, to David and Celia Hilliard, Chicago, May 31, 2002; partially given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002 and 2019.

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