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Exhibition Review
In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism and Ensor’s States of Imagination
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 51-4
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Joe (Lloyd, Joe)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium / Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
subjects:
Belgian painting / Prints
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ensor’s States of Imagination Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp 28th September 2024–19th January 2025 | :
subjects:
In Your Wildest Dreams: Ensor Beyond Impressionism Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp 28th September 2024–19th January 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Self-portrait with flowered hat, by James Ensor. 1888. Oil on canvas, 76.5 by 61.5 cm. (Mu. ZEE, Ostend; exh. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
23. Temptation of St Anthony, by James Ensor. 1887. Coloured pencil and scraping, graphite, charcoal, crayon, coloured chalk and watercolour with cut and pasted elements on fifty-one sheets of paper laid on canvas, 179.5 by 154.7 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; exh. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
24. Pride from the series Seven deadly sins, by James Ensor. 1904. Coloured etching on paper, 9.3 by 14.6 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent; exh. Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp).
Exhibition Review
Decadence and Dark Dreams: Belgian Symbolism
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 278-280
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Reviewer:
Anklam, Nico (Anklam, Nico)
Subjects
artists:
Minne, George / Khnopff, Fernand / Stuck, Franz von / Spilliaert, Léon
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
subjects:
Belgian painting / Belgian sculpture / Symbolist movement
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Decadence and Dark Dreams: Belgian Symbolism Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin 18th September 2020– 17th January 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Installation view of Fountain with kneeling youths, by George Minne, in Decadence and Dark Dreams: Belgian Symbolism, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2021.
Attributed works:
12. Caresses, by Fernand Khnopff. 1896. Oil on canvas, 50 by 150 cm. (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels; exh. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
Attributed works:
13. Self-portrait (2 November), by Léon Spillaert. 1908. Mixed media on paper, 49 by 63.8 cm. (Private collection; exh. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
Exhibition Review
Luc Tuymans: La Pelle. Palazzo Grassi, Venice
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1034-1037
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Reviewer:
Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)
Subjects
artists:
Tuymans, Luc
buildings:
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
dates:
2010-2019
subjects:
Belgian painting / Third Reich (Germany: 1933-1945)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Installation view of Luc Tuymans: La Pelle at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2019. (Courtesy Studio Luc Tuymans).
Attributed works:
2. Technicolor, by Luc Tuymans. 2012. Oil on canvas, 199 by 150.1 cm. (Private collection; courtesy David Zwirner, New York and London, and Studio Luc Tuymans).
Attributed works:
3. Cook, by Luc Tuymans. 2013. Oil on canvas, 229.5 by 169.3 cm. (Courtesy Studio Luc Tuymans).
Book Review
Luc Tuymans Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings: Volume I, 1972–1994. Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 885-886
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Reviewer:
Falconer, Morgan (Falconer, Morgan)
Subjects
artists:
Tuymans, Luc / Richter, Gerhard / Clemente, Francesco / Schnabel, Julian / Salle, David / Ensor, James / El Greco
dates:
1950-1999 / 1970-1979 / 1980-1989 / 1990-1999
media:
Paintings
places:
Belgium
subjects:
Belgian painting / Modernism / Neo-Expressionist / Figure paintings / Portraits / Style / Politics / Influence / Catalogues raisonnés
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Needles, by Luc Tuymans. 1972. Canvas, 151 by 100 cm. (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa).
Book Review
Rik Wouters: A Retrospective. Edited by Frederik Leen
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 803-804
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Reviewer:
Adams, Alexander (Adams, Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Wouters, Rik / Ensor, James
collectors and dealers:
Giroux, Georges
dates:
1880-1889 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Sculpture / Paintings / Prints / Pastels / Etchings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium / Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
places:
Belgium / Brussels / Antwerp
subjects:
Belgian sculpture / Belgian painting / Exhibition catalogues / Busts / Portraits / Nudes / Sitters / Self-portraits / Still lifes / Landscapes (visual works) / Fauvism / World War (1914-1918)
Article
Manet’s ‘Toreadors’ in Alfred Stevens’s ‘Woman in the studio’
04/2015 | 1345 | 157
Pages: 259-262
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Author:
Piper, Corey (Piper, Corey)
Subjects
artists:
Manet, Edouard / Stevens, Alfred Emile Leopold Joseph Victor, Belgian painter, 1823-1906
dates:
1860-1869
museums and institutions:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States
subjects:
Acquisitions / Belgian painting / French painting / Studios (work spaces) / Interiors / Paintings within paintings / Portraits
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
36. Woman in the studio, by Alfred Stevens (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)
Attributed works:
37. Toreadors, by Edouard Manet (Alfred Atmore Pope Collection, Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington CT)
Attributed works:
38. A painter, or The studio, by Alfred Stevens (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels)
Attributed works:
39. La posada, by Edouard Manet (S.P. Avery Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Article
Unpublished letters from René Magritte to Pierre Flouquet: 1920–21
09/2013 | 1326 | 155
Pages: 602-605
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Author:
Whitfield, Sarah (Whitfield, Sarah; Whitfield, Mrs)
Subjects
artists:
Flouquet, Pierre / Magritte, René
dates:
1920-1929
subjects:
Correspondence / Artists' writings / Belgian painting / Exhibitions / Drawings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Postcard from René Magritte to Pierre Flouquet, postmarked 22nd September 1920. (Private collection)
Attributed works:
15. Ouverture d'un grand magasin, by René Magritte (Collection Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp)
Attributed works:
16. Untitled, by René Magritte (Collection Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp)
Attributed works:
17. Two girls standing with the backs turned, by René Magritte (Collection Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp)
Book Review
James Ensor. The complete paintings
02/2010 | 1283 | 152
Pages: 112-113
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Reviewer:
Florizoone, Patrick (Florizoone, Patrick)
Subjects
artists:
Ensor, James
dates:
1870-1909 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
print:
Ensor, James
subjects:
Belgian painting / Prints / Artists' writings / Interviews / Correspondence / Catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
James Ensor. The complete paintings | author: Tricot, Xavier
Book Review
Henry de Groux 1866–1930, Journal
01/2009 | 1270 | 151
Pages: 40
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Reviewer:
Cooke, Peter (Cooke, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Groux, Henri de
dates:
1870-1909 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929
print:
Groux, Henri de
subjects:
Artists' writings / Autobiographies / Diaries
subjects:
Belgian painting / Belgian sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Henry de Groux 1866–1930, Journal | assisted by: Lambert, Anne-Elisabeth , editor: Pinchon, Pierre , editor: Rapetti, Rodolphe , editor: Wat, Pierre
Publication Received
Magritte and Photography
08/2006 | 1241 | 148
Pages: 558
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Reviewer:
Parkinson, Gavin (Parkinson, Gavin)
Subjects
artists:
Magritte, René
dates:
1900-1969
print:
Magritte, René
print:
Photography
subjects:
Biographies / Belgian painting / Photographs / Surrealism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Magritte and Photography | author: Roegiers, Patrick
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