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Baron James Ensor
Death Chasing the Flock of Mortals1896

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Etching on cream paper, a skeletal figure with a giant scythe floats above a dense crowd of grimacing masked faces filling a city street, with fantastical figures swirling in smoke above

Baron James Ensor, Death Chasing the Flock of Mortals, 1896, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Judith Rothschild Foundation, Joan Palevsky, Dr. Richard A. Simms, Julius L. and Anita Zelman, Daws and Carla Waffer, and Urban S. Hirsch III, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Baron James Ensor
Belgium, Ostende, 1860-1949
Printer
Jean-Baptiste Van Campenhout
Belgium
Title
Death Chasing the Flock of Mortals
Place Made
Belgium
Date Made
1896
Medium
Etching and drypoint printed with tone on ivory simili-Japan paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 7/8 in. (31.75 × 25.08 cm) Image: 9 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (23.5 × 17.46 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Judith Rothschild Foundation, Joan Palevsky, Dr. Richard A. Simms, Julius L. and Anita Zelman, Daws and Carla Waffer, and Urban S. Hirsch III
Accession Number
M.2003.42
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Papanikolas, Theresa. Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009.
Copyright
© James Ensor Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

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