The Ice Skaters (Les Patineurs)
James Ensor
1889
Medium
hand-colored etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 17.8 x 23.7 cm (7 x 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 28.9 x 40.2 cm (11 3/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Karl Leubsdorf
Accession Number
1979.58.3
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...