Paul Cézanne Five Bathers ca. 1877-78 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
Paul Cézanne Group of Bathers ca. 1892-94 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
Paul Cézanne Les Grandes Baigneuses ca. 1894-1906 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
Paul Cézanne Bathers ca. 1902-1904 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
Vincenzo Catena Christ carrying the Cross before 1531 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
Vincenzo Catena Christ presenting the Keys to St Peter ca. 1520-25 oil on canvas Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Vincenzo Catena Holy Family with Saint ca. 1498-1500 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Vincenzo Catena Holy Family with St Anne ca. 1520 oil on panel San Diego Museum of Art |
Rembrandt Portrait of Johann Sylvius 1633 etching Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig |
Rembrandt Portrait of Pieter Haaringh 1655 etching, engraving and drypoint Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
Rembrandt Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh 1634 etching Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Rembrandt Self Portrait with Saskia 1636 etching Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Frank Stella Bampur 1965 acrylic and day-glo paint on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Frank Stella Damascus Gate - Stretch Variation 1968 acrylic on canvas Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
Frank Stella Fortin de las Flores 1967 lithograph Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
Frank Stella Warka I 1973 acrylic paint, felt and cardboard on canvas Denver Art Museum |
Later in Pau
In the corner of your eye,
stranger, the shadow of
the Albigenses –
after
the Waterlooplein market,
I'm singing of you
to the unmatched
canvas shoe, to the
Amen that gets hawked off with it,
in the lot
that's vacant for eternity: singing
you away:
so that Baruch, who never
cried,
may grind
around you his
precision-beveled
uncomprehended, all-seeing
tear.
The ounce of truth in the depths of delusion:
two pans of the scale
come by it,
in turns, both at
the same time, conversing.
Heaved to heart-height,
my son,
the law wins.
– Paul Celan, from Glottal Stop, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh (2000)