The Arts: An odd man in Ostend James Ensor was a merciless depicter of Belgian society in his youth, yet he died a Baron. Martin Gayford examines his strange, split life

The Sunday Telegraph London | August 31, 1997| | Copyright

IN 1949 the painter James Ensor died, in his 90th year and full of honours. He was given a regal funeral with all the town, indeed, all Belgium in attendance. "Among the swirling masses were ministers in full regalia, ambassadors in cocked hats, church dignitaries in red and lace, generals in showy uniforms", according to an early biographer. It could not fail to evoke the savagely indignant, violently scatological attacks Ensor had made on such people in the work of his prime. Most of all, it put people in mind of the great Entry of Christ Into Brussels, 1888, in which his fellow citizens ...

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