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The Way of Silence II, 1903
František Kupkaexpand_more
Color etching, drypoint, aquatint and rouletteexpand_more
Gift of funds from the Print and Drawing Council and The Dr. Frances E. Schaar Fund in memory of Leon and Anna Schaarexpand_more P.99.1
Not on Viewexpand_more
According to Audrey Wagtberg Hansen in her article "Cold Gods and Fatal Women: The Many Faces of the Sphinx in the 19th Century," Kupka's "Way of Silence II" was "inspired by the poem Dream-land by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), [where] we see a lone traveller on a seemingly endless road under a starry sky, flanked by two rows of stone sphinxes. A Latin text on the pedestal of the front sphinx, 'QUAD AD CAUSUM SUMUS' (= why are we'), again poses a life-and-death question."
Details
- Title
- The Way of Silence II
- Artist Life
- 1871 - 1957
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.99.1
- Provenance
- (Galerie André Candillier, Paris); sold to MIA, 1999.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- cf. Rowell 2
- Curator Approved
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