Hue

attributed to Saracchi Family of Milan
Dragon-shaped Cup with Lid
ca. 1575-1600
bloodstone with enameled-gold mounts
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Ottavio Miseroni
Shell-shaped Cup
ca. 1600
bloodstone with enameled-gold mounts
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Gustav Klimt
The Park
1910
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Barnett Newman
Dionysius
1949
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Roberto Matta for Gavina (Italy)
Malitte Lounge Furniture
1966
polyurethane and wool
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Blinky Palermo
Untitled
1970
dyed cotton mounted on muslin
Museum of Modern Art, New York

David Willetts
On the Return Journey
1973
acrylic on board
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London

Jenny Holzer
Untitled
(series, Inflammatory Essays)
ca. 1979-82
offset lithograph
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Riduan Tomkins
Déjà vu
1982
oil on canvas
private collection

Joseph Marioni
Green Painting no. 3
1992
acrylic on linen
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Thomas Ruff
Nacht 13 III
1993
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

David Shrigley
Imagine the Green is Red
1997
C-print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Luc Tuymans
Illegitimate I
1997
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London

Sharon Lockhart
Ikebana by Haruko Takeichi
2002
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Run Away With Me
2019
acrylic and felt-pen on muslin
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Kate Shepherd
Here and There
2020
enamel and transfer-paper on paper
Menil Collection, Houston

Robert Zandvliet
Paradaidha VI, Pons
2023
tempera and oil on linen
private collection

Song from a Play

I saw a staring virgin stand

Where holy Dionysus died,

And tear the heart out of his side,

And lay the heart upon her hand

And bear that beating heart away;

And then did all the Muses sing

Of Magnus Annus at the spring,

As though God's death were but a play.

Another Troy must rise and set,

Another lineage feed the crow,

Another Argo's painted prow

Drive to a flashier bauble yet.

The Roman Empire stood appalled:

It dropped the reins of peace and war

When that fierce virgin and her Star

Out of the fabulous darkness called.

– William Butler Yeats (1926)