Thrift store employee Charlotte (28) finds a real Ensor worth 3,000 euros among donated items: “I recognized his style immediately”

Without 28-year-old Charlotte Pleysier, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) might not have been able to unveil a new Ensor on Tuesday morning. In September, the alert employee of Kringwinkel’s Antwerp warehouse found a one hundred and forty-year-old etching by Ensor among thousands of dumped items. “I had just been to the Ensor exhibition in Ostend so I immediately recognized his style. And then I saw his signature.”

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