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Drawing by James Ensor missing

Since Friday, June 10, a drawing of the Belgian painter James Ensor is missing from the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.
It is a work on paper titled The Triumph of Death. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp did loan this work to the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague for the exhibition James Ensor, Universe of a dreamer, which ran from March 12 until June 13.
The disappearance is under investigation by the police.