James Ensor, Anna Swinbourne, The Museum of Modern Art, 2009, HC, Fine

Swinbourne, Anna. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009

English, Fine hardcover, quarto, 11 5/16” x 8 ¾”, 208 pp.

ISBN:9780870707520

Fine quarto, red cloth over boards, stamped gilt lettering to front and spine, endpapers feature detail of visiting card from Sketchbook 1883-96. Fine dust jacket with detail of “The Strange Masks” 1892, white titling, blue spine with white lettering, protected by paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Art exhibition catalog for James Ensor, June 28-September 21, 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art, Text in English, Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry, Essays by Susan M. Canning, Jane Panetta, Michel Draguet, Robert Hoozee, Laurence Madeline, and Herwig Todts, Plates, Catalogue, Chronology, Bibliography, includes 162 full-color and 7 black-and-white reproductions of paintings, drawings, and prints, mainly from Ensor’s most creative period, 1880 to mid-1890s. A wonderful copy of experimental artwork by a pioneer of Expressionism and Surrealism.