Laura Gascoigne

Out of this world | 14 July 2007

Masquerade: the work of James Ensor (1860–1949)

issue 14 July 2007

Masquerade: the work of James Ensor (1860–1949)

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 Viscount Leverhulme on the profits of soap. Among the fragrant creations of Millais, Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones, Leighton, Waterhouse and co.,

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