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Brussels's art scene around 1900 and its European reach, with over 250 works from the Belgian section of the 1900 Exposition universelle.
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You walk in to Khnopff's long, strange canvas of what looks like Oedipus meeting the Sphinx, under blue columns, enigmatic signs and a pair of wings borrowed from Hypnos, god of sleep. The museum says plainly that the painting resists any single reading.
That's the tone for over 250 works from the Brussels of around 1900: paintings, sculpture, posters, jewellery, photographs and architecture, mostly lent by Belgium's royal museums and library. The route covers the avant-garde salons, dreams and the occult, landscape, workers on strike, the Flemish past and Art Nouveau, and it does not skip Leopold II's Congo, whose ivory fed the decorative arts. It ends on the Belgian section of the 1900 World Fair, held in the Grand Palais just across the avenue, so the finale took place over the road.
Tickets are €17 (€15 reduced), free for under-18s, and the show stays open until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
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Khnopff's Des Caresses (1896)
A scene recalling Oedipus and the Sphinx among blue columns and enigmatic signs, a riddle the museum says resists any single reading.
Ensor's Le Squelette peintre (1896)
Ensor, author of more than sixty self-portraits, paints himself with worn-out brushes among his own masks and skeletons.
Wolfers's Caresse du cygne (1897)
A bronze swan wraps around an outsized elephant tusk, the star piece of the 1897 colonial exhibition's ivory display.
Laermans's Un soir de grève (1893)
A crowd marches behind a socialist flag while one young woman looks straight at you, hesitating, and a child cries in its mother's skirts.
Maria Sèthe at the harmonium (1891)
Van Rysselberghe's pointillist portrait once hung in the hall of the Bloemenwerf villa, where the pink walls matched her dress.
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Under-18s get in free, and a trail for ages 6 to 10 follows the strange dwarf Punch from room to room to find the oddest works.
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