“To this man life is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death.”
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“The terrible beautiful Life.”
version in original Flemish (citaat van Roger Raveel, in het Vlaams): Het verschrikkelijke mooie leven.
title of his painting / installation - including birdcage and two living canaries, Raveel made in 1965 (translation: Fons Heijnsbroek)
1960's
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