Destroyed by the artist
Provenance: Photograph of the painting from the estate of the artist
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["The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale" by Joseph Conrad, 1907: The novel is based on a historical incident. On February 15, 1894, the Frenchman Martial Bourdin detonated a bomb outside the Royal Observatory in London's Greenwich Park. The 26-year-old man was the only person to die in the attack. Joseph Conrad saw the crime as a tragedy, above all because of its senselessness...]