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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| Germany | 33 |
| USA | 16 |
| Belgium | 13 |
| Italy | 10 |
| Japan | 8 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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La Biennale di Venezia, Italy |
5 |
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Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, France |
3 |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
3 |
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Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany |
3 |
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Hachmeister Galerie, Germany |
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Biography: 
13.4.1860 Born in Oostende, VWV (BE)
Ensor, James Sidney, Baron Ensor, Belgian painter, whose unique portrayals of grotesque humanity made him a principal precursor of
20th-century expressionism and surrealism.
except for three years spent at the Brussels Academy, from 1877 to 1880, he lived in Oostende all his life. His early works were of traditional subjects—landscapes, still lifes, portraits, interiors—painted in deep, rich colors and lighted by subdued but vibrant light. In the mid-1880s, influenced by the bright color of the impressionists and the grotesque imagery of earlier Flemish masters such as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Ensor turned toward avant-garde themes and styles. He took his subject matter principally from Oostende´s holiday crowds, which filled him with revulsion and disgust. Portraying individuals as clowns or skeletons or replacing their faces with carnival masks, he represented humanity as stupid, smirking, vain, and loathsome. Outstanding in this vein is his immense canvas Christ´s Entry Into Brussels in 1889 (1888, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California).
Ensor deliberately used harsh, garish colors and violent, broken brushstrokes to heighten the violent effect of his subjects. His work had an important influence on - 20th-century painting, his lurid subject matter paving the way for surrealism and Dada, and his techniques—particularly his brushwork and his coloristic sense—leading directly to expressionism
17.11.1949 Died in Oostende, VWV (BE)
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Public exhibitions 108
from 10.4.2010
until 7.3.2010
until 4.2.2010
until 29.11.
until 29.11.
Solo shows 25
2009
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| James Ensor - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
2008
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| James Ensor - Schrecken ohne Ende - Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
2007
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| Masquerade: the work of James Ensor - Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight |
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| James Ensor: Paintings - Peter Freeman, Inc., New York City, NY |
2006
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| James Ensor - Fries Museum, Leeuwarden |
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| Ensor's Graphic Modernism - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
2005
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| James Ensor - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
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| James Ensor - Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City |
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| James Ensor - Radierungen aus der Sammlung Hegewisch und dem Kupferstichkabinett - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
2004
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| Bitte nehmen Sie Platz, Herr Ensor! - MARTa Herford, Herford |
2003
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| James Ensor - Vision und Aufruhr - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop |
2002
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| James Ensor - vizionář modernosti - Galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu / Gallery of Visual Art in Cheb, Cheb |
2001
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| James Ensor - Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo |
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| Between Street and Mirror - The Drawings of James Ensor - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
2000
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| James Ensor - Fred Jahn Studio - Kunsthandel, Munich |
1999
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| James Ensor - Museo d´Arte Moderna, Lugano |
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| James Ensor 1860-1949 - Visionär der Moderne - Hachmeister Galerie, Münster |
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| James Ensor - The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya |
1993
1989
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| James Ensor - Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich |
1986
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| James Ensor - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1963
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| James Ensor - LWL - Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, Münster |
1951
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| James Ensor - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1932
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| James Ensor - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
Group shows 78
2009
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| A Museum of Belgian Visionary Art - Khnopff to Delvaux and Magritte From the Collection of Himeji City Museum of Art - Bunkamura, Tokyo |
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| From Dürer to Kiefer - Five Centuries of Graphic Arts - Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
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| Goya, Redon, Ensor. Grotesque paintings and drawings - Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2008
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| THE FLOWERS OF EVIL STILL BLOOM - Cueto Project, New York City, NY |
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| Het Spel van de Waanzin - Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent |
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| Sonsbeek 2008 - Carried Away Procession in Art - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
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| Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| Exposition: paysage et nature - Musée Charlier, Brussels |
2007
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| Inner Light - Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi |
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| Der Kuss der Sphinx. Symbolismus in Belgien - Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna |
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| Drawings, Watercolors and Gouaches: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Freud - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart - Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Re-picturing the Past/Picturing the Present - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| 100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
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| Chefs-d`oevre des Musees royauk de Beaux-Arts de Belgique - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| A New Key: Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection - McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA |
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| Strip en Kunst - Singer Laren, Laren |
2006
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| Six Feet Under; Autopsie unseres Umgang mit Toten - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| Ensor and the avantgardes by the sea - Museum Voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Oostende |
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| Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Exhibition - NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Essay - Galerie St. Etienne, New York City, NY |
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| Inner Worlds Outside - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
2005
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| Marine - Paintings of the Sea - Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Les Grands Spectacles - 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| Life and Limb - KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN (ex Feigen Contemporary), New York City, NY |
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| Chronos - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed) |
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| 1905-2005 : Du Palais des Beaux-arts au MAMAC - MAMAC Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liège |
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| Blumenstück - Künstlers Glück - Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
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| (my private) Heroes - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| La Beauté de l’Enfer - Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels |
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| Belgique visionnaire - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
2004
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| Liège-Nancy, aller-retour - MAMAC Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liège |
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| "Bäume" - Galerie Biedermann, Munich |
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| Andererseits - Die Phantastik - Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum - Schlossmuseum, Linz |
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| Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| A century of belgian painting - Frissiras Museum, Athens |
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| Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Multiple Räume (1) :Seele - Konstruktionen des Innerlichen in der Kunst - Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
2003
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| Bilbao a Genova - La cultura cambia le città - Palazzo Ducale, Genoa |
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| The Human Figure - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| EXPRESSIV! - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
2002
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| Affinities - Francisco Toledo, James Ensor, José Guadalupe Posada - USC Fisher Museum - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Durch 150 Jahre in Schwarz - Weiss - Hachmeister Galerie, Münster |
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| Interieur met dame - Fries Museum, Leeuwarden |
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| Mirror Image - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2001
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| STILLEBEN NATURE MORTE STILL LIFE NATURA MORTA - Hachmeister Galerie, Münster |
2000
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| Expression und Meditation - Die Sammlung Rombold - MMK Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau |
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| Jean Tinguely - In Basel lebte ich mit dem Totentanz - Museum Tinguely, Basel |
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| Cosmos - From Goya to De Chirico from Friedrich to Kiefer - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
1999
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| Masterprints - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| Expression und Meditation - Sammlung Rombold - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz |
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| La consolation - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
1998
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| Un siècle de collage en Belgique - Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière |
1996
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| Van Ensor tot Delvaux : Ensor, Spilliaert, Permeke, Magritte, Delvaux - Museum Voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Oostende |
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| By Night - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1995
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| Pierrot: melancholie und Maske - HDK - Haus der Kunst - München, Munich |
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| 46th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1993
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| Azur - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| Da Dürer a Klee - La rappresentazione dell'Ignoto nei secoli - Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano |
1992
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| A visage decouvert - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1989
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| Open Mind (Gesloten Circuits) - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
1978
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| Ars Medica - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1969
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| Ensor - Delvaux - Magritte - - Galerie Gmurzynska - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2006) |
1966
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| Von Impressionismus zum Bauhaus - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1964
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
1909
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| 8. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1909 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1907
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| 7. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1907 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1903
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| 5. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1903 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1901
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| 4. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1901 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
| Dealer Directory 5 |
Germany
| | Morat - Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | Faggionato Fine Arts, London (England)
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| | Richard Nagy, London (England)
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USA
| | Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, NE
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Public collections 43
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Belgium
| | Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp
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| | Dexia Art Gallery, Brussels
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| | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
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| | MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
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| | Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Gent
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| | MAMAC Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liège
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| | Museum Voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Oostende
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Brazil
| | Museu de Arte Moderna Murilo Mendes, Juiz de Fora, MG
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Canada
| | The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC
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Finland
| | Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
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France
Germany
| | Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne
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| | Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
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| | Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
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| | Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
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| | Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
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Iran
| | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
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Israel
| | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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Italy
| | Gallerie d´Arte Moderna di Udine GAMUD, Udine
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Japan
| | Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji
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| | Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
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| | NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
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| | Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
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Netherlands
| | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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| | Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
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Spain
| | Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao
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| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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Switzerland
| | Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny
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| | Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
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| | MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
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| | Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Knoxville, TN
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| | The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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| | UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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