A dentist and nurse tending a patient in a chair, a woman holding up a test tube filled with blood and three surgeons in green coats and face masks; a warning about the dangers of contaminated blood and transmission of the AIDS disease. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo.

Sri Lankan mask

Skull Mask, Bhutan

Grotesque yellow mask

Sri Lankan Mask

Blue Boar's head mask

Yellow mask with sideburns

Death mask; Max Neubyrger.

Sri Lankan mask coloured yellow.

Sinhalese mask used in exorcism

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