The Caresses (The Sphinx)
painting by Khnopff
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- In Fernand Khnopff
In 1896 he painted The Caresses (The Sphinx), his best-known work. The painting’s subject is an interpretation of Moreau’s Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864) and features a hybrid human-leopard nestled next to an androgynous Oedipus.
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