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Art the community tagged “skeletons” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff 13h ago

Comical Repast (Banquet of the Starved) by James Ensor, 1917

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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Comical Repast (Banquet of the Starved)

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.