Marcel Roux — The Spider | Symbolist Fine Art Print

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Marcel Roux — The Spider | Symbolist Fine Art PrintMarcel Roux (18781922) was a French symbolist draughtsman and printmaker whose ink drawings reapers, nightbeasts, dancing skeletons, spiders rank among the most psychologically disturbing graphic works of the early 20th century. Working in a tradition that connects Flicien Rops and Francisco Goya to Expressionism, he produced images of death, dread, and the occult with a technical mastery and emotional directness that makes them impossible to dismiss

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