Demons Tormenting Me

Prints and Drawings

1888

James Ensor
Belgian, 1860-1949

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Ensor
Title: Demons Tormenting Me
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.: 1888
Medium: Black chalk with black Conté crayon on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left of center, in black pencil: "Ensor 1888"
Dimensions: 21.8 × 29.8 cm (8 5/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
Reference Number: 1967.528
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

P. Cuypers, James Ensor: l’Homme et l’Oeuvre (Paris, 1925), p. 15 (ill.).
Libby Tannenbaum, James Ensor (New York, 1951), p. 103 (ill.).
Paul Haesaerts, James Ensor (Brussels, 1957), p. 72 (ill.). Reprint: New York, 1959, no. 230 (ill.).
H. T. Piron, Ensor, ein psychoanalytische studie (Antwerp, 1968), p. 57.
F. C. Legrand and G. Ollinger-Zinque, Ensor, cet inconnu (Brussels, 1971), no. 92.
Paul Haesaerts, James Ensor (Brussels, 1973), no. 78.
F. C. Legrand and G. Ollinger-Zinque, Ensor Necunoscutul (Bucarest, 1975), no. 92.

Kunsthaus Zürich, “James Ensor,” May 20-July 31, 1983, p. 354 cat. 23 (ill.); traveled to Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Aug. 20-Oct. 30, 1983.
Brussels, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, “James Ensor,” Sept. 24, 1999-Feb. 13, 2000.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “James Ensor,” June 28–Sept. 21, 2009, p. 80 and 195, cat. 103, cat. by Laurence Madeline et. al.; traveled to the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Oct. 20–Feb. 4, 2010
Art Institute of Chicago, “Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor,” Nov. 23, 2014-Jan. 25, 2015; also shown in Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, June 10-Sept. 7, 2014.
Antwerp, Belgium, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, “In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism”, September 28, 2024 - January 19, 2025, p. 156, fig. 131 (ill.), cat. by Herwig Todts, et. al.

Probably to artist to Augusta Boogaerts (1870-1951), Brussels; by descent to her sister, Julienne Claes-Boogaerts, Brussels [Tannenbaum 1951]. Sold by the Bateau-Lavoir Gallery, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.

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