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Afternoon of a Faun
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Title |
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Size |
9.7 x 8.1 cm |
Date Published |
2001 |
Reference |
Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue
Raisonné (Odana
Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1999, cat.69) |
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This etching was produced
c.1920. Rose pulled roughly fifty prints from the plate but it
was never published because
of its erotic content. When Matisse illustrated the same subject
(Mallarmé's poem L'Apres-midi d'un faune), he too resorted
to neoclassical convention 'to remind us of the pagan simplicity
and vitality of the designs on Greek vases and the erotic murals
at Pompeii and Herculaneum'. Norman had visited Pompeii en route
to London in 1909. |
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