The Kiss of the Sphinx

Franz von Stuck

c. 1895

Source: the 1896-97 Magazine of Art: 154.

“Though impressed on to a small canvas, it [The Sphinx] has a stamp of force that seems as if it might burst the frame! Stuck's power of expres- sion is greater than ever.” — Paul Schultze-Naumberg

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