Ensor James Herwig Todts (8 results)

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 256 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 27 through July 21, 2001. Features an introduction and acknowledgements by editor Catherine de Zegher, and texts by Susan M. Canning, Marcel De Maeyer, and Herwig Todts. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, a chronology by Xavier Tricot, a bibliography, and a checklist. A near fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 272 pages, as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Phantoms, skulls, skeletons and other macabre figures populate the paintings, drawings and prints of James Ensor. His works are bizarre, ironic, occasionally belligerent and provocative, but always buoyed by a keen sense of humor, and his nightmarish motifs reveal the absurd and grotesque about everyday life. Ensor's interests were wide-ranging; he was as enthusiastic about Rembrandt's prints as he was about the Belgian Carnival festival and Japanese masks. In turn, early twentieth-century artists such as Alfred Kubin, Paul Klee and the German Expressionists Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were inspired by his creative power and radical rejection of traditional European ideals of beauty. This volume presents nearly 60 paintings and an equal number of drawings, which are published here for the first time.James Ensor (1860-1949) was born in Brussels where he studied at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts. He first exhibited his work in 1881, and received his first solo exhibition four years later. Despite initial attacks in the press, Ensor quickly found favor in his native Belgium. By 1920 he was the subject of major exhibitions; in 1929 he was named a baron by King Albert; and in 1933 he was awarded the Legion d'honneur. Ensor rarely left Belgium, and endeared himself to the people of Ostend, where he spent most of his life, as a familiar figure about town.

Softcover, 248 pages; in English; as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Condition: Wie neu. 4°. 31 x 25 cm. 270 Seiten. Illustrierter Original-Pappband. 1. Auflage. Zweisprachige Ausgabe in Spanisch und Englisch. Mit zahlreichen zum Teil blattgroßen Abbildungen in Farbe und Schwarz-Weiß. Publikation zur Ausstellung in Salamanca, vom 25. November 2004 bis 15. Januar 2005, und in Sevilla, vom 18. febrero bis 3. April 2005. Neuwertiges Exemplar. Illustrated original hardcover. First edition. Bilingual edition in Spanish and English. With numerous illustrations in colour and black and white, some full-page. Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Salamanca, 25 November 2004 to 15 January 2005, and in Seville, 18 February to 3 April 2005. Mint copy. Sprache: Englisch und Spanisch.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Erste Auflage. 28 x 22 cm. 205 S., 1 Blatt. OLeinen mit illustriertem OUmschlag. Umschlagkanten mit minimalen Bereibungen. Sonst sehr gutes Exemplar. Katalog zur Ausstellung Utrecht 14. August bis 3. Oktober 1993 durchgehend mit zum Teil farbigen Abbildungen versehen. Text in niederländischer Sprache. Inliegend 1 kopiertes Textblatt von Jürgen Partenheimer zu Constantin Brancusi.

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 204 pages, in Japanese with illustration titles also in English; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.