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| Karel Appel Big Head 1957 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Frank Auerbach Head of E.O.W. 1959-60 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| Elisabeth Frink Soldier's Head IV 1965 bronze Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Alberto Giacometti Monumental Head 1960 bronze Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Asger Jorn Untitled C 1958-59 etching and aquatint Tate Gallery |
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| William Klein New York - Four Heads 1954 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Jirí Kolár Ils ont des yeux perçants comme une vrille, Luisants come ces trous où l'eau dort dans la nuit – 1972collage with sliced photograph and lithograph, combined Tate Gallery |
from Les Petites Vieilles
Ils trottent, tout pareils à des marionnettes;
Se traînent, comme font les animaux blessés,
Ou dansent, sans vouloir danser, pauvres sonnettes
Où se pend un Démon sans pitié! Tout cassés
Qu'ils sont, ils ont des yeux perçants comme une vrille,
Luisants come ces trous où l'eau dort dans la nuit;
Ils ont les yeux divins de la petite fille
Que s'étonne et qui rit à tout ce qui reluit.
from The Little Old Women
Whether they mince like marionettes or drag
themselves along like wounded animals,
they dance – against their will, the creatures dance –
sad bells on which a merciless Devil tugs.
They waver, but their eyes are gimlet-sharp
and gleam like holes where water sleeps at night –
the eyes of a child, a little girl who laughs
in sacred wonder at whatever shines!
– Charles Baudelaire, from Les Fleurs du Mal (1857), translated by Richard Howard (1982)
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| Leon Kossoff Self Portrait 1967 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Black and White Head 1966 glazed ceramic Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Head - Red and Yellow 1962 oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Henry Moore Large Totem Head 1968 bronze Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Barbara Nessim Weekend in Woodstock 1967 drawing, with watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Nathan Oliveira Head and Shape II 1964 lithograph Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Ivor Roberts-Jones Paul Claudel ca. 1955-57 bronze Tate Gallery |
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| Shmuel Shapiro Man Mad with Fear 1966-67 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Feliks Topolski Head of John Gielgud ca. 1975 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |