Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Death of the Last Centaur
A centaur bends beside a small haloed human figure in front of a great black city silhouette. Pale intertwined bodies stand above a band of dense ornamental foliage. The surrounding poem The Death of the Last Centaur gives the classical hybrid its elegiac setting.
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Boris Artzybasheff. "The Death of the Last Centaur" [editorial title]. In The Undertaker's Garland, John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson, Jr.; decorations by Boris Artzybasheff. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. The volume separately lists each writer’s contributions and credits Boris Artzybasheff’s decorations., 1922, Alfred A. Knopf. Source scan leaf 35. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0266-0026
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Boris Artzybasheff. The Death of the Last Centaur. The Undertaker's Garland. Scan leaf 35. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0266-0026