Egg tempera on pressed wood panel 53,3 x 91,5 cm (21" x 36") Philip J. & Suzanne Schiller collection Cadmus was an accomplished pianist and his love of music can be seen in his tribute to writer Reynaldo Hann. Here he places the famous classical composer as a living mythical monument set somewhere in Paris where places that were particularly significant in the writers life appear in the background. The painting's title, "Le rouban denoué" (The Ribbon Unknotted) comes from the writers composition of a suite of waltzes for two pianos. The painting depicts one of the most blatantly erotic images of the classical archetype of Pan, seen reaching for the composer's sleeve, in obvious sexual arousal while a more angelic figure kisses the writer into a creative euphoria. Seen in the detail here, the manuscript blows from the writers lap and winds, along with the ribbon, endlessly toward the crescent moon of a hazy sky.