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Salon des Cent, 31, Rue Bonaparte, Paris--Exposition en Décembre 1898 de l'oeuvre de James Ensor / Ensor. – Vintage Wall Art

Salon des Cent, 31, Rue Bonaparte, Paris--Exposition en Décembre 1898 de l'oeuvre de James Ensor / Ensor., [Brussels, 1896] — vintage poster
Salon des Cent, 31, Rue Bonaparte, Paris--Exposition en Décembre 1898 de l'oeuvre de James Ensor / Ensor., [Brussels, 1896]. Vintage poster from the Astrology & Magic collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Demons are the surprising subject of this color poster for James Ensor's December 1898 exhibition at the Salon des Cent on the Rue Bonaparte in Paris. The Salon des Cent was a Paris gallery that showed Symbolist and avant-garde painters, and Ensor, a Belgian artist from Ostend, was known for crowds of masks, skeletons and grotesque figures that unsettled academic taste. The record dates the print to Brussels in 1896, a bracketed estimate, so it may predate the Paris show it advertises. Its lithographic color and occult imagery make it a useful example of how artists promoted their work before modern advertising.

Created / published[Brussels, 1896]
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreSelf-portraits 1890-1900.Posters Belgian 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900.
NotesPromotional goal: Bel. K6.K92. 1898.
SubjectsDemons--1890-1900. Art exhibitions--France--Paris--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,148 × 1,453 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216662

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