Art, Symbol & Imagination
Death and Cupid
A small winged child advances before a tall black skeleton with long angular limbs. Curved cords or ribbons join their movements across the pale page. Artzybasheff brings the conventional figures of love and death together within the collection’s satirical treatment of mortality.
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Boris Artzybasheff. "Death and Cupid" [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 95. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0266-0085
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Boris Artzybasheff. Death and Cupid. The Undertaker's Garland. Scan leaf 95. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0266-0085