Corner of a Table

Prints and Drawings

1880/83 and 1885/86

James Ensor
Belgian, 1860–1949

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Ensor
Title: Corner of a Table
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.: 1880–1886
Medium: Black chalks and charcoal, with pen and brown ink and touches of incising, on cream wove paper, pieced and laid down on white wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed, recto, lower right, in black chalk: "ENSOR"; inscribed verso, lower right on mount, in graphite: "33,8 : 23,4"
Dimensions: 22.4 × 32.5 cm (8 7/8 × 12 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.932
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Ensor, exh. cat. (Blondé Artprinting International, 1999), p. 34, fig. 2.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 113, cat. 76 (ill.).
Susan M. Canning, Patrick Florizoone, Nancy Ireson, Kimberly Nichols, Debora Silverman, Anna Swimbourne, and Sabine Taevernier, with a forward by Herwig Todts, “James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014). https://publications.artic.edu/ensor/reader/temptationstanthony; Accessed August, 2015, Transcending Tradition, para. 7, fig. 5 (ill.).

Anvers, Musée Royal des Beaux Arts, “Rétrospective James Ensor,” June 16–Aug. 15, 1951, cat. 44.
Rome, Campidoglio Palazzo dei Conservatori, “Ensor: Dipinti-Disegni-Incisioni,” July–Aug., 1981, p. 66, cat. 41.
Tel-Aviv Museum, “James Ensor: 1860–1949,” Sept. 22–Nov. 11, 1981, cat. 67.
Zurich, Knoedler, “James Ensor: Meisterliche Handzeichnungen 1880 bis 1888,” February 12-March 19, 1983, n.p., cat. 3 (ill.).
Zurich, Kunsthaus, “James Ensor,” May 20–July 31, 1983, p. 352, cat. 170; also Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Aug. 20–Oct. 30.
Zurich, Galerie M. Knoedler, “Gustav Klimt, 1862–1918; Egon Schiele, 1890–1918; James Ensor, 1860–1949; Alfred Kubin, 1877–1959: Künstler der Jahrhundertwende,” Sept. 24–Dec. 3, 1983, p.178, cat. 3.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 113, cat. 76 (ill.).
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-Sep. 7, 2014.

Ernest Rousseau, Brussels; Mme Jeanne Rousseau, Brussels. Private Collection, Ostend. Galerie M. Knoedler, Zurich, by 1983; M. Knoedler, New York. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 24, 1993, lot 17, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Transcending Tradition • Kimberly J. Nichols

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