Word: ensor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Toledano's first one-man show in Manhattan last year had the critics comparing him to Goya and Ensor and brought customers on the run. In four weeks he sold 19 of the pen & ink drawings on display. Last week Toledano's second exhibition was drawing just as appreciative crowds to the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the museum itself quickly bought one of the pictures...
Your excellent Oct. 8 story on the Ensor exhibition reported that our friends, New York's Museum of Modern Art, put on the show. As a trustee of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, keen to see credit go where credit is due, may I point out that the Modern Museum and the Institute have been associated in this undertaking, but that the Institute was wholly responsible for organizing the show, and that its director, James S. Plaut, has conducted negotiations with the Belgian government ever since 1947 to win permission for most of Ensor's important...
Actually, there were two Ensors-the young man who painted some mild early pieces of impressionism, and the mature craftsman of disagreeableness. The Museum of Modern Art arranged its exhibit so that visitors would see the mild stuff first. But the early Ensors, e.g., pleasant home-town scenes such as Ostend Rooftops and Afternoon at Ostend, quickly gave place to the later ones: the swirling Tribulations of St. Anthony, a skeleton-haunted Banquet of the Starved, a macabre dumb-show entitled Masks Confronting Death. His most famous picture, Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (TIME...
...Ensor's story is the story of an artist rebuffed who turned misanthrope. "All rules, all canons of art," he said in his mature misanthropy, "vomit death." He dressed his subjects in leering masks, pitted them in futile struggles against each other. Even his own family was not proof against his scorn. In The Artist's Mother in Death, he stretched his mother's gaunt, grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern...
...respectability Ensor professed to fear finally overtook him, and he yielded without a struggle. In 1929 King Albert made him a baron. Before his death in 1949, he saw his paintings hung in most of Belgium's museums. In Ostend, a tablet was placed on the wall of his house, a street was named for him, and a statue was erected. Artist Ensor unveiled the statue himself...