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One of Rimbaud’s ‘démons sinistres’ perhaps, the god of arrivals and departures, although an image with this title often depicts a duplicitous two-faced figure looking either benevolently or malevolently from one year to the next. In 1872 Rimbaud and Verlaine attended a pro-communard meeting in Old Compton Street, London, supporting the Paris Commune founded after the Franco-Prussian War the previous year. This meeting was celebrated in 2001 with a ‘sound-sculpture’ by Michael Clark, set—by an extraordinary coincidence—in the doorway of an emporium in Soho named ‘Janus’.
Oil on panel: 34.4.x 24.2 cm. Framed, glazed: 38.6 x 28.4 cm.
[GB-ALb 5–9400020] |
