The Winged And Poppied Sleep

Artist Simeon Solomon (London, England, 1840 - 1905)

AssociatedAssociated with Paul Verlaine (Metz, France, 1844 - 1896)

Date1889

Mediumsanguine on paper

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsFrame Size: Height: 57.3 cm, Width: 47.3 cm, Depth: 3.2 cm
55.3 x 40cm
Image Size: 37 x 27cm
Frame Size: 61.5 x 6.6cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1949.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationOn Display - Gallery 18

Object numberABDAG003407

Keywords

About MeSimeon Solomon was both an artist and a poet. In 1871 he published the prose poem, 'A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep'. 'The Winged and Poppied Sleep' is one of many drawings in which he returns to this poetic theme.

The figure who personifies Sleep wears a garland of poppies which from classical times were the flowers associated with sleep and death (and as the source of opium, may also allude to the use of opiate drugs which was then prevalent). Solomon was a close associate of the poet Swinburne and in 1893 he may have met Verlaine, who autographed the frame of this drawing.

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