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« on: May 31, 2011, 05:30 »


http://www.wfu.edu/~woodaljn/ant260/sphinx.htm

I am trying to find out more about this specific painting. At first it really does look like a photo, but it's supposed to be a black and white image of a painting by William Sargeant Kendall. It's called The Sphinx. He did a more recognizable painting of Psyche, but the rest of his work isn't very interesting to me.

I can't find a larger and color version of this and would appreciate it if any of you knew of a better image of it.

Plus I wanted to start a sphinx thread! I'll add more soon.
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2011, 16:26 »

Hmm.. I must admit that I've never seen this image before, but it reminds me very much of stills of Theda Bara as The Vamp (c 1915 - i.e. pretty much the same time!): http://a783.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/64/l_d7bd0cf75354702eadbaa1ca04874c66.jpg
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2011, 16:28 »

I also don't really get how this is a picture of a sphinx? Maybe it's mis-titled?
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2011, 18:24 »

Suzanne. I believe it's supposed to be a sphinx in line with the symbolist sphinx(think of von stuck). Where I found it they also had it with those Theda pictures, but I've seen it a few other places still attributed to Kendall and not compared to the pictures you linked.
It always confused me too because it really does look like  a black & white photo(a blurry one), but then I've seen some of his other paintings turned to black and white and they also look photographic like this one
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2011, 18:41 »

I see. Well, I wish I could help but I really don't have any leads. Even TinEye doesn't recognise the image. Let's hope that someone else sees this and has an answer.
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« Reply #5 on: Jun 02, 2011, 21:01 »


Sphinx - Valère Bernard
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« Reply #6 on: Jun 05, 2011, 06:06 »



bt Cidaq on deviant art
http://cidaq.deviantart.com/
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« Reply #7 on: Jun 08, 2011, 04:43 »


Jacek Malczewski

I don't even know...I enjoy the ridiculous cartoon cat paws.
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« Reply #8 on: Jun 08, 2011, 16:15 »

Haha! She looks like a confused furry.

I absolutely don't understand what's going on anatomically... even cryptoanatomically... on the left under the wing?
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« Reply #9 on: Jun 14, 2011, 20:17 »

Neither do I! It's like a giant wormy thigh?
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« Reply #10 on: Jun 15, 2011, 21:08 »

You know what?! I think it's actually supposed to be part of her leg.
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« Reply #11 on: Sep 20, 2011, 14:13 »

John Buckland Wright's illustrations for "Le Sphinx" by the Belgian Symbolist Iwan Gilkin
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« Reply #12 on: Sep 26, 2011, 17:02 »

Just some guy & I on the sphinx in Crystal Palace, London:




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« Reply #13 on: Nov 18, 2011, 02:50 »

Those are adorable Suzanne!


by Von Stuck


I like this Max Klinger one.

And here are the many ones by Ernst Fuchs.

I wish I could see his better, but since they are sculptures it seems hard to find good photos of them.
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« Reply #14 on: Feb 04, 2012, 07:22 »

http://jescie.net/post/16919012498/fantastic-inkwell-self-portrait-sphinx-sarah-bernhardt-1
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