The etching "The Assasination" was probably inspired by an article and illustration from the magazine Le Journal Illustré of 27 May 1888. Ensor turned the lurid depiction of the illustration in the magazine, in which two men saw through a dead man's arm with a handsaw and his blood seeps into a bucket, into a lurid yet burlesque parody.
| Artist |
James Ensor
RKD
VIAF
Wikidata
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| Title | The Assassination |
| Date | 1888 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support |
etching
AAT
heightened AAT |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-38 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-38 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4044/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300056485 fantastic art AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A224
arms
Iconclass
31A22611 blood Iconclass 31A236 lying figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31E death of human being Iconclass 31E2362 violent death by removal of parts of the body by cutting, sawing, tearing Iconclass 41A711 table Iconclass 41D221(TOP HAT) head-gear: top hat Iconclass 44G511 murderer Iconclass 47D8(SAW) tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: saw Iconclass 52A4 Imagination; 'Imaginatione' (Ripa) Iconclass 52A44 Fantasy, Caprice; 'Capriccio' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
phantasy
satire (artistic device) AAT |
| James Ensor : Catalogue illustré de ses gravures ; Leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques = Geïllustreerde catalogus van zijn gravures ; Hun kritische beschrijving en inventaris van de platen = Illustrated catalogue of his engravings ; Their critical description and inventary of the plates / Auguste Taevernier. - Ledeberg (Gent) : Erasmus Boekhandel bv Amsterdam, 1973 (nr. 38) |
| The Power of the Avant-Garde : Now and Then (exhibition Brussels, BOZAR, 29.09.2016 - 22.01.2017 ; Krakow, National Museum, 09.03 - 28.05.2017) / Ulrich Bischoff, Katarina Lozo, Javier Arnaldo, Kurt De Boodt, Paul Dujardin. - Tielt : Lannoo Publishers, 2016 (p. 64, cat. 012) |
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