Skeleton Looking at Chinoiseries, James Ensor (1888)
Skeleton Looking at Chinoiseries constitutes a turning point in James Ensor’s œuvre: he introduces the iconographic motif of a skeleton and leaves behind the impressionistic depiction of reality he had practised until then. The painting gives us a view into a room in which a figure is looking at a Japanese (therefore not Chinese as in the title) picture book.
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