Friday 4 October 2013

James Ensor - A True Story

by Gerhard Theewen, at least he told us this one.

Once he was in the town of Ostende and there he noticed somebody handling an art print with no care at all. Looking closer he noticed that it was an original by James Ensor. When he asked this person about it, he got the following retort: "Oh that lunatic !"

And all the time a portrait of that lunatic was on the Belgian banknotes....

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