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Masks Confronting Death
James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949)
1888. Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 1/2" (81.3 x 100.3 cm). Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
505.1951
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rousseau, Brussels. [Likely purchased from the artist by Mariette Rousseau, 1890] By 1905 – 1921
Mrs. G. Born, Anvers/Antwerp. By 1922 – at least until 1947
Gustave van Geluwe (1881-1962), Brussels. By 1949 – 1951
Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels. Agent for van Geluwe, 1951
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased from Galerie Georges Giroux, 1951
Masks Mocking Death
La mort et les masques
Les Masques défiant la mort
Masques raillant la mort
Masques scandalisés raillant la mort
[Masques devant la mort]
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