Still Life with Fish and Shells by James Ensor
Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life with Fish and Shells

James Ensor · 1898

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. A. Jungers, Brussels by1908 [according to Verhaeren 1908 and Tricot 1992]. F. van Haelen, Brussels by 1920 [according to exh. cat. 1920] until at least 1939 [according to exh. cat. 1939]. Mme Cl. van Weyenbergh, Ressaix and Quaregnon by 1943 [according to Fierens 1943] until at least 1951 [according to exh. cat. 1951]. Possibly Sam Salz, Inc., New York [according to Salz’s label on the reverse of the painting]. Leigh B. Block, Chicago by 1967; given to the Art Institute, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Exposition de cent oeuvres de James Ensor, January 7–18, 1920, cat. 27.
  • Antwerp, Kunst von Heden–L’Art Contemporain, May 7–29, 1921, cat. 117.
  • Wolvandael (Brussels), Château de Wolvandael, Exposition de la collection F. Van Haelen, May 10–25, 1924, cat. 44.
  • Brussels, Palais des Beaux–Arts, Rétrospective James Ensor, January 19–February 17, 1929, cat. 225.
  • Ostende, Kursaal, Oeuvres de James Ensor, August 11–18, 1931, cat. 52.
  • Brussels, Exposition Universelle et Internationale, Exposition D’Art Moderne, January 5–11, 1935, cat. 122.
  • Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, XXIIIe Salon: Hommage à James Ensor, March 19–April 4, 1949, cat. 34.
  • Paris, Gazette des Beaux–Arts, Ensor, June–July, 1939, cat. 45.
  • Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Hommage a James Ensor, October 12–November 4, 1945, cat. 85.
  • Brussels, Galerie du Siècle, Ensor, Peintures, Eaux–fortes, June 2–18, 1948, cat. 9.
  • Ostende, Palais des Thermes, Glories de la Peinture Moderne: Homage a James Ensor, July 23–August 22, 1949, cat. 17.
  • Brussels, Palais des Beaux–Arts, Les peintures de la mer: XIVe Salon–Hommage à James Ensor, March 4–19, 1950, cat. 28.

Literature

Published references

  • Emile Verhaeren, James Ensor (Brussels, 1908), p. 120.
  • Bulletin et Catalogue des Expositions James Ensor (Brussels, 1920), p. 4.
  • Grégorie le Roy, James Ensor (Brussels and Paris, 1922), p. 137.
  • François Fosca, James Ensor (Brussels, 1929), no. 225.
  • André de Ridder, James Ensor (Paris, 1930), no. 38 (ill.).
  • Paul Fierens, James Ensor (Brussels, 1943), no. 97 (color ill.).
  • Paul Haesaerts, Ensor (New York, 1959), no. 114.
  • Francine–Claire Legrand, Ensor, cet inconnu (Brussels, 1971), p. 115.
  • Richard Brettell, Post–Impressionists (New York, 1987), pp. 22 (ill.), 23.
  • Francine–Claire Legrand, Ensor (Brussels, 1990), pp. 87, 127, no. 182.
  • Xavier Tricot, James Ensor: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings vol. 2 (Antwerp, 1992), p. 375, no. 376 (ill.).
  • Francine–Claire Legrand, Ensor, la mort et le charme: Un autre Ensor (Antwerp, 1993), pp. 91 (ill.), 220 (color ill.), 258.

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