Edge of the Forest in Ostend (La lisiere du petit bois, Ostende)
James Ensor
1887
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.716
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...