Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
There was a show of James Ensor’s work at the Royal Academy in 2016, curated by Luc Tuymans, also a Belgian painter. Reviewing the exhibition, Laura Cumming wrote in The Guardian: His mother sold souvenirs, carnival masks, dolls and chinoiserie;…
The art journalist Laura Gascoigne wrote in 2007: It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely place for a James Ensor exhibition than the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, the squeaky-clean temple to Edwardian taste in art founded by…
My first major discovery at the Getty was Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer (1885) by Fernand Khnopff. The second one was Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888) by James Ensor. “I must be in the wrong room,” I thought. “This…