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Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle, 1850, by James Sant.
Franz Stuck, Fishing Game (Faun and Nymph), 1904.
In the Depths of Imagination
Harry Clarke (1889-1931), Irish painter-glassmaker and illustrator.
He has been an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, particularly in Ireland, and has been influenced by many movements, including Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Celtic Revival.
His style, inimitable, all in lines and ambiguity, will marry perfectly to the works he will illustrate.
(The pictures show, in order: page 004 of von Goethe’s Faust, 1925 ; The Man of the Crowd, 1923 ; The Cask of Amontillado, 1919 ; Morella, 1909 ; illustration in The fairy tales of Charles Perrault, 1922 ; The Colloquy of Monos and Una, 1923 ; illustration from Tales of Mystery and Imagination , 1919 ; idem, 1923 ; Descent into the Maelstrom, 1919 ; and, finally, illustration in The fairy tales of Charles Perrault Perrault, 1922)
Hamlet and Ophelia
Artist: Mikhail Vrubel
Date: 1888
Medium: Oil on cardboard 32.7x23.8cm
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow