Frank Dobson Two Heads 1921 sandston Courtauld Gallery, London |
Heinrich Stegemann Portrait of Ingeborg Krause Stegemann 1925 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Alvar Cawén Self Portrait 1923 oil on canvas Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
Max Beckmann Double Portrait 1923 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
André Lhote Portrait of Anne F. 1928 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
James Ensor Girl with Masks (Communion) 1921 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
Philip de László Portrait of Clarice de Rothschild 1925 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Gaston Schnegg Self Portrait 1924 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
Anita Rée Portrait of Hildegard Heise 1927 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Karl Kluth Portrait of a Young Man 1923 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Otto Dix Portrait of Josef May 1926 tempera and oil on board Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Otto Rodewald Portrait of Gerda Margarethe Rück 1929 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Lovis Corinth Last Self Portrait 1925 oil on canvas Kunsthaus, Zürich |
Walt Kuhn Woman with a Black Necklace 1928 oil on canvas Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha |
Jean Hugo Double Portrait of Jean Cocteau 1923 drawing Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
Chaїm Soutine Le Valet de Chambre 1927-28 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
A strange, unserviceable thing,
A fragile, exquisite, pale shell,
That the vast troubled waters bring
To the loud sands before day has broken.
The storm arose and suddenly fell
Amid the dark before day had broken.
What death? what discipline?
What bonds no man could unbind,
Being imagined within
The labyrinth of the mind,
What pursuing or fleeing,
What wounds, what bloody press,
What wounds, what bloody press,
Dragged into being
This loveliness?
– W.B. Yeats (1919)