Demons Torment Me (Les Démons me turlupinant)
James Ensor
1898
Medium
color lithograph on wove paper [proof]
Dimensions
sheet: 62.9 x 48.2 cm (24 3/4 x 19 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2007.81.1
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...