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...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, May 15,1950), was there...
...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...
...symbol of unity. Belgium's young dynasty, just over a century old, has usually known its place. Baudouin's grandfather, mountain-climbing King Albert, became Europe's best-loved monarch (in October 1918, in trench coat and battered helmet, Albert surprised the stout burghers of Ostend as the first allied soldier to enter that Belgian city on the heels of the fleeing Germans). But he never forgot the lesson his autocratic grandfather and predecessor Leopold I had learned through hard experience: in Belgium, a King is supposed to govern, not to rule. Albert's son, Leopold...
...time in 1929, it was hailed as a brilliant "expressionist" picture foreshadowing the works of Max Beckmann and Paul Klee. Connoisseurs clustered around the picture like cattle at a salt lick, but while he lived, Ensor refused to part with it. Last week it went for $40.000 to an Ostend casino proprietor named Gustave Nellens...
Died. Baron James Ensor, 89, Belgium's major modern artist, noted for his masked, fantastic figures; in Ostend, Belgium. Pre-Surrealist Ensor, little known and seldom shown in the U.S., was, like fellow pioneers Gauguin and Van Gogh, among the first to go beyond impressionist painting...