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| Max Ernst Portrait of Dominique ca. 1932 oil on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Max Ernst Sign for a School for Pirates 1965 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Max Ernst Time and Duration 1948 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
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| Max Ernst Marlene 1940-41 oil on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Brassaï Brothel in Quartier Saint-Germain 1931 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Brassaï Couple in Bed chez Suzy ca. 1932 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Brassaï Gala Soirée at Maxim's ca. 1948 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Brassaï Group of Merrymakers at the Quatre Saisons ca. 1932 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Lindy Lee White Sacrament 1985 oil paint and encaustic on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Lindy Lee Dominion 1994 hand-colored photocopy collage mounted on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Lindy Lee The Long Road of the River of Stars 2015 manipulated inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Lindy Lee Eating the Immortal Pellet 2015 manipulated inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Pierre Bonnard Le Bain ca. 1924 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Pierre Bonnard Femme devant un Miroir ca. 1908 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Pierre Bonnard Study ca. 1920 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Pierre Bonnard Study for printed program for Théâtre Libre ca. 1890 watercolor and ink on paper National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Sonnets from China
XI
Certainly praise: let song mount again and again
For life as it blossoms out in a jar or a face,
For vegetal patience, for animal courage and grace:
Some have been happy, some, even, were great men.
But hear the morning's injured weeping and know why:
Ramparts and souls have fallen; the will of the unjust
Has never lacked an engine; still all princes must
Employ the fairly-noble unifying lie.
History opposes its grief to our buoyant song,
To our hope its warning. One star has warmed to birth
One puzzled species that has yet to prove its worth:
The quick new West is false, and prodigious but wrong
The flower-like Hundred Families who for so long
In the Eighteen Provinces have modified the earth.
– W.H. Auden (1938)