“…the allegory represented by The Dream is not overly explicit. As Klaus Lankheit suggests, it is more of a poetic image without any rational meaning. The scene takes place in the middle of the night, as indicated by the marked blackness of the background sky. The yellow house on the left may symbolise the real world, while the rest of the composition is occupied by the scene of the dream. The naked female figure in the centre, who sleeps seated with her legs crossed and surrounded by animals, is perhaps the symbol of harmony between man and the animal world. In this Garden of Earthly Delights the animals enact the rhythms of nature and the colours are tinged with a symbolic meaning. In Marc’s language, the blue of the horses symbolises the essence of masculinity, intellectual and spiritual; the yellow is the essence of femininity, kindly and sensual; whereas red is the colour that should be combated and defeated by the other two.”

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

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