
Egon Schiele. In front of the mirror 1912
Egon Schiele. In front of the mirror 1912
Egon Schiele. Nude woman 1914
Auguste Rodin. Aube. Aquarelle
Egon Schiele. Gerti 1910
Egon Schiele. Study for Danae 1909
Egon Schiele. Seated nude 1911
Egon Schiele. Woman sitting 1910
From Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883). Portrait of a young woman
« It seems to me that I am so far from you! And that I am completely foreign to you! There is always something missing that torments me. » (Letter from Camille Claudel to Auguste Rodin)
From La belle et la bête directed by Jean Cocteau in 1946
« I can’t take it anymore, I can’t go a day without seeing you. Otherwise the atrocious madness […] All my soul belongs to you […] may my heart still feel your divine love spreading again. »(Letter from Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel)
Auguste Rodin. Sans titre 1900s. Aquarelle
« I wanted to show time, its change in duration, the one that nature shows, but in a way specific to man, a subject conscious of its presence defined by death: emotion of life in irreversible duration. Arbitrary time of calendars, of clocks does not interest me. It erases itself by the repetition that defines it, only focalization of the present. » (Roman Opalka)
Roman Opałka. La lutte finale 1967
Roman Opałka (1931-2011). Sans titre
Chen Jialing. The spiritual variance
Cardwell Higgins. The circle of life 1920s
The circle of life. The perfect man and perfect woman, seeking one another in unison for the creation of the perfect child, with the protecting hand of the father and the supporting hand of the mother. The embodiment of father, mother and child is the total life. The sun, the supplier of the life-giving elements necessary for survival. The hourglass of time. The Evil influence that comes into their lives. The slowly burning candle of life. And the inevitable death!
D’après Paul Klee
Edward Munch. Flower of pain 1897
Edward Munch. Blossom of pain 1898
Egon Schiele. Woman in a green dress 1910
Egon Schiele. Nude woman 1910
Egon Schiele. Two girls embracing 1911
Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman with orange stockings 1914
Le Caravage. Madeleine en extase 1606
Egon Schiele. The kiss 1911
Egon Schiele. Self-portrait 1911
« …Alone and resilient in my wounds facing the future..borders are my prison… » (DantéBéa)
José Ibarrola. Light horizon 1996
Pablo Picasso. Seated woman 1953
Egon Schiele. Seated woman 1911
Pablo Picasso. Man and woman with a child in a café 1903
Egon Schiele. Nude woman from back 1913
Egon Schiele. Nude woman standing 1911
Egon Schiele. Three nude women 1910
Franz von Stuck. Athena 1923
Egon Schiele. The agony 1912
Egon Schiele. Woman wearing a green dress 1908
José Ibarrola. Entre plis de taffetas rouge 1997
Paul Delvaux. L’office du soir 1971
Paul Delvaux. The break of day 1937
Egon Schiele. Girl in black dress with her legs spread 1910
Egon Schiele. Nu masculin de dos 1910
Egon Schiele. Nude woman 1911
Ian Hugo. Forest woman 1945
Egon Schiele. Nu masculin allongé 1910
« I regret nothing. Nor the outcome which seems funereal to me, my life will have fallen into an abyss. But my soul had its flowering, alas late. I had to know you and everything took on an unknown life, my dull existence blazed in a bonfire. Thank you because it is to you that I owe all the share of heaven that I have had in my life. » (Letter from Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel)
Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman 1913
Egon Schiele. Lovers 1914
Henri Matisse. Nu rose assis 1935
Egon Schiele. Two friends 1913
Henri Matisse. Le rêve 1935
Henri Matisse. Tête blanche et rose 1914
Herbert James Draper. Étude à l’huile pour Clyties of the mist 1910
Herbert James Draper. The evening hours 1916
« Her silence is mine. Her eyes, mine. It is as if she had known me for a long time, as if she knew everything about my childhood, my present, my future; as if she was watching over me, guessing me from closer, although I see her for the first time. I felt that she was my wife. Her pale complexion, her eyes… These are my eyes, my soul…I have entered a new house, and I am inseparable from it. »
(Marc Chagall)
Egon Schiele. Lovers 1912
Egon Schiele. Young woman lying 1911
Egon Schiele. Gerti Schiele 1910
Egon Schiele. Women embracing 1914
Egon Schiele. Nude woman with black stockings 1913
From La belle et la bête directed by Jean Cocteau in 1946
« La minute m’a dit : « Presse-moi dans ta main ;
Tu ne sais aujourd’hui si tu seras demain ;
Ainsi prends tout le suc qui m’enfle comme une outre,
Ne tourne pas la tête et ne passe pas outre,
Vis-moi !…dans un instant, je serai du passé !
Mais tu ne sais peut-être au juste ce que c’est
Qu’étreindre dans ses bras la minute qui passe,
Si tu comprends la splendeur grave de l’espace
Qui te laissait jadis indifférent et froid,
Si tu sais accepter la douleur sans effroi,
Si tu sais jouir d’un très subtil parfum de rose,
Si pour toi le couchant est une apothéose,
Si tu pleures d’amour, si tu sais voir le beau
Alors suis sans trembler la route du tombeau.
Tu vivras de chansons, de splendeurs, de murmures,
Le chemin n’est plus long si l’on cueille ses mûres,
Et je suis près de toi la mûre du chemin ! »
La minute m’a dit : « Presse-moi dans ta main. »
(Jean Cocteau)
Marc Chagall. Lovers over the town 1918
Edvard Munch. On the waves of love 1896
« Her silence is mine. Her eyes, mine. It is as if she had known me for a long time, as if she knew everything about my childhood, my present, my future; as if she were watching over me, guessing me from closer, although I see her for the first time. I felt that she was my wife. Her pale complexion, her eyes… These are my eyes, my soul…I have entered a new house, and I am inseparable from it. »
Marc Chagall. Couple in ocher 1952
Herbert James Draper. Study for a bather 1913
Herbert James Draper. Figure study for Clyties of the mist 1912
Herbert James Draper. Study for the central figure of Clyties of the mist 1890s
Herbert James Draper. Study of a female nude
Henri Matisse. Nus bleus 1952
« … sois assurée que je n’ai aucune femme en amitié, et que toute mon âme t’appartient…
Je suis déjà mort et je ne comprends plus le mal que je me suis donné pour des choses qui me sont si indifférentes maintenant…
Toi qui me donnes des jouissances si élevées, si ardentes, près de toi, mon âme existe avec force et, dans sa fureur d’amour…
Il a fallu que je te connaisse et tout a pris une vie inconnue, ma terne existence a flambé dans un feu de joie…
Merci car c’est à toi que je dois toute la part de ciel que j’ai eue dans ma vie… » (Lettre d’Auguste Rodin à Camille Claudel)
Auguste Rodin. Femme allongée 1900s. Aquarelle
Christian Schad. Half-nude woman 1929
Amedeo Modigliani. Reclining nude 1916
Willem de Kooning. The kiss 1925
Egon Schiele. Pregnant woman in red 1910
Hans Duivenvoorden. Lovers
Diego Rivera. Reclining nude with snake 1920s
“The sun shines on the duality of day and night, and on eternal love. That which dies in modern man because he is like a potted plant on a balcony, never dies in me because my soul reaches to the other side of the earth, and my roots are infinite.” (Anais Nin)
Franz von Stuck. Femme nue allongée 1896
Herbert James Draper. Study for the flying fish 1910
Herbert James Draper. Study for the kelpie 1913
Marc Chagall. L’anniversaire 1915
Marc Chagall. Femme nue en mouvement 1912
Egon Schiele. Nude woman with right leg raised 1915