Artworks

La sirene sortit des flots vetue de dards (The Siren clothed in barbs, emerged from the waves

Le Satyre au cynique sourire (The Satyr with the cynical smile)

Quand s'eveillait la Vie au Fon de la matiere obscure (When life was awakening in the depths of obscure matter)

Il y eut peut-etre une vision premiere essayee dans la fleur (There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower)

Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)

The Sphinx

The Beacon

The Satyr with the Cynical Smile, plate 5 of 8 from "Les Origines"

Centaur Aiming at the Clouds

The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana

And Man Appeared; Questioning the Earth From Which He Emerged and Which Attracted Him, He Made His Way Toward Somber Brightness, plate 8 of 8 from "Les Origines"

The Impotent Wing Did Not Lift the Animal Into That Black Space, plate 7 of 8 from "Les Origines"

There Were Struggles and Vain Victories, plate 6 of 8 from "Les Origines"

There Was Perhaps a First Vision Attempted in the Flower, plate 2 of 8 from "Les Origines"

The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops, plate 3 of 8 from "Les Origines"

Siren Coming out of the Waves, Dressed in Flames, plate 4 of 8 from "Les Origines"

When Life Was Awakening in the Depths of Obscure Matter, plate 1 of 8 from "Les Origines"

Cover-Frontispiece for Les Origines

Rocks on the Beach

Trees in the Blue Sky

And Man Appeared, Questioning the Earth from Which He Came and Which Draws Him Back, as He Cleared a Way Forward to the Murky Light (Et l'homme parut, interrogeant le sol d'où il sort et qui l'attire, il se fraya la voie vers de sombres clartés)

The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops (Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux)

The Teeth (Les Dents)

The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon Moves Towards Infinity, plate one from To Edgar Poe