Pairs - II

Jules Chéret
La Diaphane
(rice powder endorsed by Sarah Bernhardt)
1890
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Jules Chéret
La Diaphane
(rice powder endorsed by Sarah Bernhardt)
1890
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Lucien Lefevre
Electricine - Rouge et Blanche
1894
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Lucien Lefevre
Electricine - Eclairage de Luxe
1895
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Dimitrios Galanis
Idylls of Theocritus - The Beloved
1954
etching
National Gallery, Athens

Dimitrios Galanis
Idylls of Theocritus - The Herdsmen
1954
etching
National Gallery, Athens

Ferdinand Erfmann
Floorshow
1954
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Ferdinand Erfmann
Floorshow
1957
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Sonorous
1958
oil on board
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Green Scent
1963
oil on board
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Peter Ackermann
Profile
1973
acrylic on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Peter Ackermann
Renaissance Machine
1973
acrylic on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Cees van Dijl
Untitled
ca. 1980
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Cees van Dijl
Untitled
ca. 1980
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Wolfgang Tillmans
Victoria Line
2000
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Wolfgang Tillmans
Piccadilly Line
2000
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

from Littoral

I select seven of them,
seven stones totalling home:
a dark one scored with crazy

yellow strokes like fossil grass
or hopscotch on a pavement,

a flat one like a mountain –

ridge in outline, capped with snow,
one like a mesolithic

axe-head, but more beautiful,

smooth basalt flecked with sequins,

one crossed with mineral lines,

one rock ringed like a planet,

one riddled with reddish specks

the texture of crayon wax.

An ostrich-egg of granite. 

– Caitríona O'Reilly, The Sea Cabinet (2006)