Human need Sleep as art
Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918): Die Nacht (The night), 1889/1890
Odilon Redon (1840-1916): Frau unter Baum schlafend (Woman sleeping under tree), around 1900/1901
Paul Klee (1879-1940): Siesta der Sphinx (Siesta of the Sphinx), 1932
Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899): Pastore addormentato (Sleeping shepherd), 1886/88
Christus im Garten Gethsemane: die schlafenden Jünger (Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane: the sleeping disciples), around 1130/40. Extract from the wood ceiling in the church of St Martin in Zillis, canton Graubünden
Henri Matisse (1869-1954): Nature morte à la dormeuse (Still life of a sleeping woman), 1940
Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898): Sleeping beauty
Salvador Dali (1904-1989): Le sommeil (Sleep), around 1955
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879): Das Nachtasyl der Ärmsten (Nocturnal asylum of the poorest), 1840
Egon Schiele (1890-1918): Die Mutter des Künstlers, schlafend (The artist's mother asleep), 1911
Two people asleep, from the book "Livre de Messire Lancelot du lac" by Gautier de Moap, 15th century
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): Der Traum (The dream), 1932
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901): Le lit (The bed), around 1892
Sleep is universal. So it's no surprise that sleep, in its various aspects, has been a standard theme of artists and has been transformed into paintings, drawings and graphics but also sculptures and plastic.
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