Mask and Eye: The Graphic Work of James Ensor and Odilon Redon

• Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)Odilon Redon1883
• Quand s'eveillait la Vie au Fon de la matiere obscure (When life was awakening in the depths of obscure matter)Odilon Redon1883
• Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")Odilon Redon1889
• The Exterminating Angel (L'ange exterminateur)James Ensor1889
• Il y eut peut-etre une vision premiere essayee dans la fleur (There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower)Odilon Redon1883
• Le Satyre au cynique sourire (The Satyr with the cynical smile)Odilon Redon1883

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