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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Ensor James Creator Nationality: Belgian Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1860 - 1949 Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Belgium Creator Name-CRT: James Ensor Title: The Intrigue View: front Creation Start Date: 1911 Creation End Date: 1911 Creation Date: 1911 Object Type: Paintings Classification Term: Painting Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Dimensions: 37 1/4 x 44 1/4 in. (94.62 x 112.4 cm) (canvas)47 3/8 x 53 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. (120.33 x 136.84 x 8.89 cm) (outer frame) Inscriptions: Signed:LR in black: [ENSOR 1911]Inscribed:Signature and Date AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA ID Number: 70.38 Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. John S. Pillsbury, Sr. Copyright: 2000 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.cfm and http://www.arsny.org Provenance: J. F. Van Missiel, Liège, Belgium; (Galeries Breckpot (Galerie Royale)), Brussels, sale Van Missiel, March 30, 1918, no. 4). A. Loicq, Melle, near Ghent, Belgium;[1] (Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, Belgium, sale no. 115, Loicq, March 18, 1933, no. 87). Albert Croquez, Paris, France.[2] John S. Pillsbury, Sr., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mrs. John S. Pillsbury, Sr., Minneapolis, Minnesota; gift to MIA in 1970.[1] See Fierens, 1943, no. 133. Collection of A. Loicq is listed, although incorrect, since the Loicq estate was sold in 1933. Fierens probably did not update the owner from the 1929 edition.[2] See 1939 exhibition with Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 60 as 'Paris, Collection Albert Croquez'. See also Haesaerts, 1959, no. 395 as 'Collection of A. Croquez, Paris.' Context: James Ensor, along with Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch, is considered a pioneer of Expressionism. But as a creator of fantastic and bizarre images such as Intrigue, Ensor reveals his kinship to old masters of the bizarre such as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Here, the artist depicted his sister, Mariette in blue hair and green cape, with her top-hatted fiancé, Tan Hée Tseu, a Chinese art dealer from Berlin. The couple's engagement had caused a scandal in the home town of the Ensor family, and the artist, in retaliation, depicts the town gossips who, disguised in their masks, have come out to point, stare, and laugh at the couple. Exhibition History: - Brussels, Belgium, Palais des Beaux-Arts, "Rétrospective James Ensor" (January - February 1929), no. 262. Exhibition History: - Paris, France, Musée National du Jeu de Paume, "L'Oeuvre de James Ensor" (June - July, 1932), no. 80. Exhibition History: - Paris, France, Galerie de l'Elysée (1937), not numbered, as 'Masques'. Exhibition History: - Paris, France, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, "Ensor" (June - July, 1939), no. 60, as 'Masques'. Exhibition History: - Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts "Beneath the Surface" (February 14, 1987 - January 17, 1988). Exhibition History: - London, England, Barbican Art Gallery, "James Ensor: Theatre of Masks" (1997). Exhibition History: - Karlsruhe, Germany, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, "Emil Nolde im Dialog (1905 - 1913)" (October 12, 2002 - February 16, 2003). AMICA ID: MIA_.70.38 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Minneapolis Institute of Arts AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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