‘I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.’

Petrarch, Il Canzoniere (Song Book), sonnet ( 1330-1374)

Léon Spilliaert, 1927

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De duizeling (Vertigo), 1908

Léon Spilliaert (1881 – 1946)

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Léon Spilliaert
Vertige, 1908

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Marine met kielzog, 1902

Léon Spilliaert (1881 – 1946)

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Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946), Silhouette d'arbres en hiver, Hautes Fagnes [Silhouette of trees in winter, Hautes Fagnes], c.1940. Watercolour and pen and India ink on paper, 50 x 63 cm. https://t.co/zy1upIpeiO

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Léon Spilliaert - Venise 1932 (Aquarelle) -

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‘How strange it is to be standing leaning against the current of time.’

W.G. Sebald, Schwindel (Vertigo), 1990

Léon Spilliaert, Vertigo, 1908

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Léon Spilliaert -
Arbuste sur fond jaune, Hautes Fagnes, 1940, watercolour and pen and India ink on paper, 50 x 63 cm
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LIEFDE
(India ink, brush, black chalk, pencil, watercolor)
By Léon Spilliaert

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Leon Spilliaert
Moonlight and Light

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Leon Spilliaert, Venice, (1932)

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"Vertigo" (1908), painted by Belgian Symbolist Léon Spilliaert at 27.

A prolific doodler and autodidact, he was predominantly a self-taught artist. Sickly and reclusive, he especially admired the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

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