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| An Abandoned City - Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921, Belgian) - pastel on paper (76 x 69 cm) in 1904 - The Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Belgium) |
A depressive painting, triggered by reading the novel Bruges-la-Mort (1892), in which a man suffered from deep depression for 5 years, after the death of his wife that he deeply loved....
Khnopff resonated, as he also suffered from a deep depression after her beloved younger sister was married away, far far away.....
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