The Unknown Woman Of The Seine - 1897 - Drawing In Black Stone And Blend -

No need to introduce you to this eternally beautiful woman, with her face frozen in a final smile. It fascinated Brecht and Breton, inspired Rilke and Céline. Nabokov dedicated a poem to it, Supervielle brought it back to life, and above all Aragon, who hangs his mask on the walls of the apartment of his hero Aurélien. Man Ray and Rudomine drew magnificent portraits of it, and Gainsbourg sang about it… For more than a hundred years the Inconnue de la Seine has haunted us. His mask is drawn here with great delicacy, perfectly rendering the paradox of this face that death has frozen happy.