India, Sept. 19 -- Victor Brauner's Self-Portrait with Enucleated Eye. The Romanian surrealist blended human, animal and object when he painted his figures. He often represented subjects whose eyes or a single eye were detached from their orbits. He probably wouldn't have painted this oil on canvas in 1931 had he known what was to come. In 1938, Brauner got into a bar brawl and was hit by a glass. He lost only his left eye.

Michael Richards's Tar Baby vs St. Sebastian. Did the sculptor foresee his death in an airplane attack? His 1999 work used a bronze cast of his own body dressed as an Afro-American Tuskegee aviator. It featured dozens of aircrafts pierced through its form. On September 11, 2001, Richards was in his studio on the 92nd ...