Chapter 10
The confusion between agony and orgasm, annihilation and ecstasy, is depicted in the figures of two beautiful suicides: Cleopatra and Ophelia. Each meets the end most suited to her character: Cleopatra, turned to marble, Ophelia dissolved in water.
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- Autor:
- Paul Delvaux
- Título:
- Sleeping Venus
- Fecha:
- 1944
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas
- Medidas:
- 177 x 203.2 cm
- Úbicacion:
- Tate Modern, London, Presented by Baron Urvater. 1957
- © Tate, London 2009
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Jean-André Rixens
- Título:
- The Death of Cleopatra
- Fecha:
- 1879
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas
- Medidas:
- 195 x 286 cm
- Úbicacion:
- Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Salvador Dalí
- Título:
- Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening
- Fecha:
- 1944
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas
- Medidas:
- 51 x 41 cm
- Úbicacion:
- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
- Numero de inventario
- © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Madrid 2009
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- Autor:
- Tom Hunter
- Título:
- The Way Home
- Fecha:
- 2000
- Tipo:
- Cibachrome mounted on foamcore mounted to board
- Medidas:
- 121.9 x 152.4 cm
- Úbicacion:
- David and Marri Moffly
- Numero de inventario