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...The star of the evening was the rediscovered James Ensor, “Baptême de Masques” (about 1925-30)....
...“There is confusion at present about where the welfare state ends and charitable giving starts,” said Charles Mesquita, senior director at Stanhope Capital, a global investment office....
...So far this year, I have met three for the first time: Air Partner’s Mark Briffa; Anpario’s David Bullen; and Charles Taylor Consulting’s David Marock....
...The radical advances of the 19th century, pioneered by the likes of Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur and Jean-Marie Charcot, nurtured a generation for whom nothing was certain any more....
...His maternal great-great-grandmother, a duke’s daughter, died in the Staplehurst railway crash, a death recorded by fellow passenger Charles Dickens, who, says Ensor, “wrote of ministering to a dying gentlewoman...
...and Myth deconstructs and challenges these hypotheses, presenting a selection of paintings, prints and drawings and comparing them with the work of Norwegian artists and leading European figures such as Ensor...
...The book begins with a sharply focused account of influences at work in 1900 - Munch and Ensor as well as Cezanne and Gauguin....
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