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Isaac Israëls (Dutch, 1865-1934), The parrotman: the guard Ponsen in the Zoo, The Hague, c.1917. Oil on canvas, 125 x 76 cm.


“I can only connect deeply or not at all.”

—  Anaïs Nin


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Sketches of Schumman’s Kinderszenen Op. 15 , No. 9, Ritter vom Steckenpferd (Knight of the Hobbyhorse), dated 1837. 


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Henri Delavallée (French, 1862-1943), Homme assis de dos [Seated man from behind], c.1886. Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 30.5 x 26.5 cm.



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Bonnard painting on his studio, 1946.
Brass

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Paris Opera Ballet artists in rehearsal

Photo © Pierre-Elie de Pibrac


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Stephen Seymour Thomas (1868-1956), The Violin Student, Paris – 1891

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Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865 – 1938): Still life with basket of apples, vase of flowers, and grapes (1928)

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Handwritten last stanza of The Raven, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Peter Frie (Swedish, b. 1947), Sky 13.09, 2003. Oil on canvas, 190 x 150 cm.

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Paris Opera Ballet artists in rehearsal

Photo © Pierre-Elie de Pibrac
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“True singing is a different breath, about
nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind.”


Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sonnet I.III,” in Duino Elegies: The Sonnets To Orpheus, trans. Stephen Mitchell (Vintage, 2009)




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Elizabeth Peyton (American, b. 1965), Earl of Essex, 1995. 
Oil on Masonite, 30.5 x 22.9 cm.

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Rachmaninov and conductor Eugene Ormandy during a rehearsal 
at the Academy of Music in 1938, courtesy of the Listeners’ Club

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Paris Opera Ballet artists in rehearsal

Photo © Pierre-Elie de Pibrac

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BBC Sherlock. Martin Freeman. Benedict Cumberbatch.

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Guy Maestri (Australian, b. 1974), Last Light over Ball’s Pyramid. Oil on linen, 183 x 152 cm.


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