Portrait of the Artist's Sister, Marie

Prints and Drawings

1881

James Ensor
Belgian, 1860-1949

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Ensor
Title: Portrait of the Artist's Sister, Marie
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.: 1881
Medium: Charcoal on ivory wove paper, laid down on cream rag board, on stretcher
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left, in image, in charcoal: "Portrait de Mlle. Marie Ensor / Ensor / 1881"
Dimensions: 75.5 × 59.5 cm (29 3/4 × 23 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1970.42
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

John David Farmer, Ensor (New York, 1976), p. 38, fig. 59.
Diane Lesko, James Ensor: The Creative Years (Princeton, 1985), p. 14, fig. 9.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 41 (ill.).
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23–May 14, 1972.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “James Ensor,” January 27-April 10, 1977, cat. 59, by John D. Farmer; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, November 6, 1976-January 2, 1977.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 162-163, cat. 74 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “James Ensor,” June 28–September 21, 2009, p. 98, cat. # 8, cat. by Laurence Madeline et. al.; traveled to the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, October 20–February 4, 2010
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor”, November 23, 2014 - January 25, 2015.

Sold by Julien J. Aberbach, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1970.

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