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1937

Foreigners

author

Wolfgang Paalen

description

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

Ghostly figures, dry and colourless, wander through a flat desert valley in an unknown direction. Their elongated figures cast yellowish shadows, like tornadoes or traces of a recent dust storm. They leave a heap of obscure elements reminiscent of someone’s bones or dried plants behind themselves. The atmosphere of the picture is rather gloomy; it is filled with silence and mystery, forcing the viewer to puzzle over who these unknown “newcomers” are, where they came from and where they are going.