Carnaval Ostende
1931
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 41 × 45.4 cm (16 1/8 × 17 7/8 in.) sheet: 49 × 32.8 cm (19 5/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ruth Cole Kainen Fund
Accession Number
2012.133.1
About the Artist
James Ensor
James Ensor (1860–1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker whose visionary, often grotesque imagery anticipated Expressionism, Surrealism, and much of the avant-garde art of the twentieth century. Born in Ostend to an English father and Flemish mother who ran a curio shop selling seashells, masks, and carnival souvenirs — objects that would pervade his art — Ensor studied at the Brussels Academy...