The Temptation of Saint Anthony

1. Sold by the artist to Maurice Speth (1887-1938), Kapellen (Belgium), June 12, 1922 [kept with the artist until 1939]; by descent to Maurice’s heir, Jean Speth (1885-1961); to Frédéric (1917-2001); by descent, to 2005; sold through C. G. Boerner to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Brussels, Salon Les XX, 1889.
• Possibly, Liège, Cercle Athlétique Liégeois, "Exposition d'Eaux-fortes et de Dessin de James Ensor," Mar. 1903.
• Antwerp, Musée des Beaux-Arts, "Rétrospective James Ensor," June-Aug. 1951, p. 18, cat. 153.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor," No. 23, 2014-Jan. 25, 2015; also 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, pp. 20-22 (ill.), 193-207, fig. 173 (ill. and details), cat. by Herwig Todts, et. al.

• Pol de Mont, "De Schilder en Etser james Ensor", in De Vlaamsche School (1895), pp. 115 and 118 [translated into French in La Plume (Paris, 1899), pp. 86 and 89].
• Emile Verhaeren, James Ensor (Brussels, 1908), pp. 67-69.
• Albert Croquez, L'Oeuvre Grave de James Ensor (Paris, 1935), p. 39.
• Ensor-Ein Maler aus derm Spaten 19. Jahrhundert, exh. cat. (Stuttgart, Württembergisher Kunstverein, 1972), p. 40.
• Paul Haesaerts, James Ensor (Brussels: Atelier de l'Art Graphique, 1973), p. 85.
• Diane Lesko, James Ensor: The Creative Years (Princeton: Princeton University, 1985), pp. 123-128.
• Robert Hoozee, Sabine Brown-Taevernier, James Ensor: Dessins et Estampes (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1987), pp. 83-92 (ill.), 127-129, no. 81-82.
• Lydia Schoonbaert, Robert Hoozee, James Ensor, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée du Petit Palais, 1990), pp. 56-57 (ill.).
• Robert Hoozee, James Ensor: Schilderijen, Tekeningen en Grafiek, exh. cat. (Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 1993), p. 39. no. 31 (ill.).
• Eliane De Wilde (editor), Ensor, exh. cat. (Brussels: Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belique, 1999), p. 35 (ill.).
• Catherine de Zegher (editor), Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor, exh. cat. (New York: The Drawing Center, 2001), pp. 34 and pp. 63-64 (ill.).
• Patricia Berman, James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (Los Angeles: The Getty Museum, 2002), pp. 82 and 72 (ill.).

Still Life with Fish and Shells

Art Institute of Chicago

Death of Jezebel

Art Institute of Chicago

The Infernal Cortege

Art Institute of Chicago

Demons Tormenting Me

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of the Artist's Niece in Chinese Costume

Art Institute of Chicago

Village Fair at the Windmill

Art Institute of Chicago

Anger, from The Deadly Sins

Art Institute of Chicago

Los Caprichos: Se Repulen

Art Institute of Chicago

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