Gamochonia - Octopus Size:70×100 cm Henri-Edmond Cross was a French

Henri-Edmond Cross was a French painter

living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period

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Gamochonia - Octopus Size:70×100 cm Henri-Edmond Cross was a FrenchSinuous, intelligent and a little mysterious, the cephalopods on this plate are among the ocean's most captivating creatures and Ernst Haeckel clearly relished drawing them. Octopuses and their relatives spread their arms across the sheet in swirling, symmetrical arrangements, sucker lined tentacles curling into elegant patterns against a deep, watery background. The image is drawn from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's defining