Faun by Moonlight | Léon Spilliaert | 1900 Select Size:12" x 9" the artist collapses the distance

the artist collapses the distance between past and present

the painting depicts her semi-nude body split open

depicted as a skeletal figure

Though the original oil painting remains in private hands

suggesting a passage from life to the afterlife

Faun by Moonlight | Léon Spilliaert | 1900 Select Size:12" x 9" the artist collapses the distanceAbout the artwork: In Faun by Moonlight (1900), Lon Spilliaert, the Belgian Symbolist painter, transforms a simple nocturnal vision into a haunting allegory of instinct and ambiguity. A faunhalf man, half goatplays his instrument beneath the pale glow of the moon, followed by a herd of goats that reinforce the eerie stillness of the scene. Using only greys and blacks, Spilliaert crafts a ghostly atmosphere where light and shadow suggest a world shaped