#grotesque
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Comical Repast (Banquet of the Starved) by James Ensor, 1917
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
They say his family ran a souvenir shop in Ostend that sold carnival masks, and he never really stopped painting them after that. This one comes out of the war years, when food was short across occupied Belgium — which the title seems to be having a go at.