![]() ![]() The author of the work, Xavier Tricot, also pays close attention to the figure of Christ in James Ensor's work. The series combines various motifs which Ensor also executed in oil paint. These drawings can be considered as a link between the Ostend master's early and later oeuvre. In 1929 the drawings were made into lithographs and published in the form of an album by Galerie Georges Giroux in Brussels. Among the works in the series is a drawing in which Ensor portrays himself as Christ, confronted with a dozen Belgian art critics who have gathered before him. Some compositions are quite conventional, others typically 'Ensorian', and some even humorous. In it, Ensor managed to combine the sublime and the grotesque in an unsurpassed manner. The series depicts different episodes from the lives of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Each drawing on paper measures about 15 by 21 cm. In 1912-1913, James Ensor produced a series of 32 drawings in coloured pencil titled Scènes de la vie du Christ.
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