Robert Rauschenberg Tanya (Tatyana Grosman) 1974 lithograph Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
David Hockney Reclining Figure 1975 etching National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
Telemachos Kanthos Four Captives 1976 woodcut National Museum, Athens |
Agnus Gastmans Four Lawyers 1976 oil on panel Museum Gouda |
Salvador Dalí Ten of Swords (Assassination of Julius Caesar) 1971 gouache and collage on paper Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins |
Francis Bacon Three Studies of the Male Back (George Dyer) 1970 oil on canvas Kunsthaus Zürich |
Ivor Abrahams Figure with Path (series, Oxford Gardens) 1977 screenprint National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne |
Philip Pearlstein Female Model on Platform Rocker 1977-78 oil on canvas Brooklyn Museum |
Joe Brainard Nude with Tattoo 1974 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Georg Eisler Station Waiting Room 1970 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Wieland Förster Torso of Falling Man 1974 sandstone Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
Lucian Freud Portrait of Ib 1977-78 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Ralph Goings Walt's Restaurant 1978-79 oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery |
Jörg Immendorff Untitled 1979 acrylic on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Theodoros Manolidis The Cocktail 1973 oil on canvas National Gallery, Athens |
Serge Lutens Parfums Christian Dior 1979 lithograph (advertising poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
Why should not old men be mad?
Some have known a likely lad
That had a sound fly fisher's wrist
Turn to a drunken journalist;
A girl that knew all Dante once
Live to bear children to a dunce;
A Helen of social welfare dream
Climb on a wagonette to scream.
Some think it matter of course that chance
Should starve good men and bad advance,
That if their neighbours figured plain,
Live to bear children to a dunce;
A Helen of social welfare dream
Climb on a wagonette to scream.
Some think it matter of course that chance
Should starve good men and bad advance,
That if their neighbours figured plain,
As though upon a lighted screen,
No single story would they find
Of an unbroken happy mind,
A finish worthy of the start.
Young men know nothing of this sort,
Observant old men know it well;
Young men know nothing of this sort,
Observant old men know it well;
And when they know what old books tell
And that no better can be had
Know why an old man should be mad.
– W.B. Yeats (1939)
And that no better can be had
Know why an old man should be mad.
– W.B. Yeats (1939)