The Greatest Love of Don Juan

1. Edmond Deman (died 1918), by 1889 [Brussels 1889]. J. Odry, Brussels, by 1969-at least 1975 [Ixelles 1969; Rotterdam 1975]. Carlo de Poortere, Kortrijk and Courtai, by 1979-at least 1985 [Gent 1979; Brussels 1985]. Sold by Galerie Patrick Derom, Brussels, to the Art Institute, 1998.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Brussels, "VIme Exposition de XX avec un Préambule," 1889, as Les Diaboliques, d’après J. Barbey d’Aurevilly.
• Musée d’Ixelles, "Félicien Rops," 1969, cat. 100.
• Namur, "Félicien Rops," 1971.
• Oostende, "Opera Prohibita, Félicien Rops," 1971.
• Knokke, Casino, "Le Symbolisme en Belgique," 1974.
• Cultural Center of New York, "Painters of the Mind’s Eye, Belgian Symbolists and Surrealists," 1974; also traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
• Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, ‘Le Symbolisme en Europe," November 14, 1975- January 11, 1976, cat. 197b; also traveled to the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels, Staatische Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden; and the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris.
• Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, "Veertig Kunstenaars rond Karel van de Woestijne," January 20-March 11, 1979, cat. 27.
• New York, Brooklyn Museum, "Belgian Art 1880-1914," 1980, cat. 80.
• Brussels, Le Botanique, "Félicien Rops," March 1-April 28, 1985, cat. 172; also traveled to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, June 6-July 21, 1985; and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice, July 31-October 15, 1985.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth", February 14-April 26, 2009, pp. 81, 86-87, fig. 88, cat. by Jay A. Clarke
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013

• O. Mirbeau, Félicien Rops (Brussels, 1897), p. 130.
• C. Lemonnier, Félicien Rops (Paris, 1908).
• C. Mascha, Félicien Rops und sein Werk (Munich, 1910), pp. 336-339.
• A. Fontainas, Rops (Paris, 1925), pp. 115-119.
• Robert Delevoy, Gilbert Lascault, Jean-Pierre Verheggen and Guy Cuvelier, Félicien Rops (Brussels, 1985), p. 198 (ill.).

Modern Masks

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Old Woman with a Needle

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At an Atheist Dinner-Party

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Invitation to a concert

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The Absinthe Drinker

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The Modesty of Sodom

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Between Acts or the Englishwoman of the New Ballet

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A Document on the Impotence of Love

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