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| James Ensor Still Life with Masks 1896 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Arshile Gorky Still Life ca. 1930-31 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Maurits Willem van der Valk Still Life with Shells and Box ca. 1910 oil and tempera on canvas Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Natalia Goncharova Still Life with Tiger Skin 1908 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Maria Blanchard Red Still Life with Lamp ca. 1916-18 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Pablo Picasso Pots and Lemon 1907 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giorgio Morandi Still Life 1957 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Gino Severini Still Life ca. 1910 lithograph High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Henri Matisse Still Life with Asphodels 1907 oil on canvas Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Odilon Redon Still Life ca. 1901 oil on canvas Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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| Anita Rée Still Life with Death Mask 1915 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Panayiotis Tetsis Still Life VIII 1978 oil on canvas National Gallery, Athens |
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| Suzanne Valadon Still Life with Fruit 1937 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Georges Braque La Table de Bar Stout 1912-13 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Johan Quirijn van Regteren Altena Still Life with Roman Head 1936 oil on canvas Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Stefanos Daskalakis Still Life 1987 oil on canvas National Gallery, Athens |
The Mask
'Put off that mask of burning gold
With emerald eyes.'
'O no, my dear, you make so bold
To find if hearts be wild and wise,
And yet not cold.'
To find if hearts be wild and wise,
And yet not cold.'
'I would but find what's there to find,
Love or deceit.'
Love or deceit.'
'It was the mask engaged your mind,
And after set your heart to beat,
Not what's behind.'
Not what's behind.'
'But lest you are my enemy,
I must enquire.'
I must enquire.'
'O no, my dear, let all that be;
What matters, so there is but fire
In you, in me?'
– W.B. Yeats (1910)