ID: 700000859 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000859	Record Type: Movable Work

Masques intrigués (etching (print); James Ensor (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949); Published: 1904; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 889277; (OCoLC)ocn669508628; accession number: 2010.PR.83*)

Note: "Ensor"--lower left corner of plate; "James Ensor 1904"--in pencil below image at right; "Masques intrigués"--on verso; The figure in the center may be a self-portrait of Ensor. Also see: Les masques intrigués, Kunstmuseum, Basel; No known states. Cf. Taevernier; Issued in L'art contemporain (Antwerp, 1906); Gift of Richard A. Simms in Memory of James N. Wood (1941-2010), President and Chief Executive Officer of The J. Paul Getty Trust 2007-2010. Publication: 1904.

Titles:

Masques intrigués (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

Curious masks: Grotesque faces as a group portrait (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Perplexed masks (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1904

Creator Display:

James Ensor (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949) [preferred,GRISC]

Ensor, James (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949) [500032046]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 889277; (OCoLC)ocn669508628; accession number: 2010.PR.83*

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, b&w

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: platemark 7.8 x 12 cm, on sheet 23.8 x 29.8 cm

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Ensor, James (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949) [500032046]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	masks (costume) [300138758]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), <costume by function>) (AAT)

	self-portrait [300124534]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	group portraits [300124525]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Provenance: simms Gift.

Inscriptions: Masques intrigués Ensor.; "Ensor"--lower left corner of plate; "James Ensor 1904"--in pencil below image at right; "Masques intrigués"--on verso.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Masques intrigués	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 889277
Curious masks: Grotesque faces as a group portrait	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Perplexed masks	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Delteil 128

....................... Taevernier 128

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)