Sunday, September 1, 2024

Scrutiny (Torsos)

Pavel Tchelitchew
Anatomical Torso
1947
drawing (crayon)
Yale University Art Gallery

Constantino Squanquerillo
Écorché Torso
1838
lithograph
Wellcome Collection, London

Antonio Durelli
Écorché Torso
1837
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

Nicole Polonsky
Skeleton Torso
ca. 1985
oil on canvas
Examination Schools, University of Oxford

W. Bagg
Torso with Chloasma
1847
hand-colored lithograph
Wellcome Collection, London

Cigoli (Lodovico Cardi)
Écorché Torso
ca. 1600
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

Adêle Mongrédien
Muscles of the Torso
1880
watercolor
Wellcome Collection, London

Jacques-Fabien Gautier-Dagoty
Torso
1746
color mezzotint
(book illustration)
Yale University Art Gallery

Ancient Roman Culture
Votive Male Torso
2nd century BC - 2nd century AD
terracotta-
Wellcome Collection, London

Dennis Beall
Torso with Plane
1967
color collagraph
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Christian Burchard
Torsos
2005
madrone wood
Yale University Art Gallery

Pia Stadtbäumer
Torsos with Cuts
1995
bronze
Denver Art Museum

Mark Cohen
Torso / Square
1974
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Michel Martin Drölling
Torso with Jacket
(study for portrait)
ca. 1840-50
drawing
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Manuel Neri
Torso Studies
1963
acrylic paint, oil pastel and collage on paper
Yale University Art Gallery

Josef Istler
Torso
1946
oil on cardboard
Národní Galerie, Prague

from Supernatural Songs

Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night 
With open book you ask me what I do.
Mark and digest my tale, carry it afar
To those that never saw this tonsured head
Nor heard this voice that ninety years have cracked.
Of Baile and Aillinn you need not speak,
All know their tale, all know what leaf and twig,
What juncture of the apple and the yew,
Surmount their bones; but speak what none have heard. 

– W.B. Yeats (1935)