JAMES ENSOR
1860-194983 Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
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Christ Bearing the Cross
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Graphite and Conté crayon on off-white wove paper
(recto); graphite (verso); H: 22.5 cm (8% in.); W: 16.6 cm
( 6 Vain.)
89.00.4 2
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at top, inscribed
SalutJesus roi des Juifs, Vive... la Sociale, Les XX on ban-
ners in Conté crayon by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Mme Klerx-Rousseau, Brussels; Ernest
Rousseau, Brussels; Jeanne Demany-Rousseau, Brus-
sels; art market, Ostend; art market, Zurich.
EXHIBITIONS: Retrospective James Ensor, Koninklij k Mu-
séum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, June-August
1951, no. 56 (catalogue by W. Vanbeselaere) ;JdW£$£:tts0r,
Kunsthalle, Basel, and Landesmuseum, Munster, 1963,
no. 107 (catalogue by M. de Maeyer); Ensor, Art Institute
of Chicago and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1976-77, no. 77 (catalogue byJ. D. Farmer);
Ensor: Dipinti—disegni—incisioni, Palazzo dei Conserva-
tori, Campidoglio, Rome, July-August 1981, no. 48
(catalogue by M. Calvesi and F. P. Edebau); James
Ensor (1860-1949), Tel Aviv Museum, September-
November 1981, no. 49 (catalogue by N. Guralnik);
James Ensor, Kunsthaus, Zurich, and Koninklijk Mu-
séum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, May-October
1983, no. 184 (catalogue by G. Ollinger-Zinque); Gus-
tave Klimt, Egon Schiele, James Ensor, Alfred Kubin: Künst-
ler derjahrhundertwende, M. Knoedler, Zurich, Septem-
ber-December 1983, no. 6 (catalogue by B. Catoir, A.
Strobl, andE. Mitsch); IkJames Ensor: Tekeningen en Pren-
ten, Muséum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, and Rijks-
prentenkabinet, Amsterdam, May-September 1987,
no. 49 (catalogue by R. Hoozee, S. Bown-Taevernier,
and J. F. Heijbroek); James Ensor, Musée du Petit Palais,
Paris, April-July 1990, no. 85 (catalogue entry by G.
Ollinger-Zinque).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. Vanbeselaere, L'entrée du Christ à
Bruxelles (Brussels, 1957), pp. 17, 32, 37; P. Haesaerts,
Ensor (New York, 1959), p. 180; W. Vanbeselaere,
"Quand James Ensor peignant 'L'entrée du Christ à
Bruxelles,'" L'oeil 31 (November 1965), p. 30; J. Kaplan,
"The Religious Subjects of James Ensor, 1877-1900,"
Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art 35 (1966), p.
203; G. Ollinger-Zinque, "Les auréoles du Christ ou les
sensibilités de la lumière de James Ensor, " Bulletin des
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 3-4 (1968), p.
197; idem, Ensor par lui-même (Brussels, 1976), p. 102,
no. 17; R. L. Delevoy, Ensor (Antwerp, 1981), pp. 190-
91 , no. 29; D. Lesko, James Ensor: The Creative Years
(Princeton, 1985), p. 133; S. McGough, James Ensor's
"The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889" (New York and
London, 1985), pp. xv, 118; B. Adams, "Low Countries
Charade," Art in America 78, no. n (November 1990),
p. 84.196 FLEMISH SCHOOL • ENSOR