When Life Was Awakening in the Depths of Obscure Matter

Black-and-white artwork of a lion lying down looking right. The lion's body faces right with its tail curled under and its head lifted. The lion faces right with a slight smile on its face. It has shading around its eye and chin. There are four eyeballs above the lion. The two eyeballs on the left have pupils with three dots. The background is dark with shading throughout.

Artwork details

Dimensions:: 645 × 893 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")

The Proverbs: Flying Folly

Last Theme of Robert Schumann

Newborn in a Bonnet (Le nouveau-né au bonnet]

The Sepulchre

Et le diable qui les seduisait, fut jete dans l'etang de feu et de soufre, ou es la b ete et le faux prophete (And the devil thatdeceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are)